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Corning and Samsung forms a new OLED glass joint venture
Feb 2nd
Corning and Samsung Mobile Display are going to establish a new equity venture for the manufacture of specialty OLED glass substrates in Korea. The new venture will combine Corning’s Lotus Glass substrate technology with SMD’s OLED display expertise – and will provide product solutions for current and future OLED technologies. The new venture will produce glasses for all OLED sizes: for small mobile panels to large OLED TV panels. It’ll be interested to hear whether this new venture will also develop transparent and flexible glass displays, as envisioned in Corning’s” Day made of glass ” concept video: read more
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LG Display to start making OLED TV panels in July, capacity will be 48,000 units a month
Jan 27th
LG Display says that they will begin production in their 8.5-Gen plant in July, making 8,000 monthly substrates – or about 48,000 55″ OLED TV panels. It’s possible that this assumes 100% yield – and in any case this is more panels then planned . LG plans to invest 4 trillion Won (around $3.5 billion) in OLED production this year, and plans for 2013 will only be made during in the third quarter – LG wants to see the market reaction. LG’s 55EM9600 is a 55″ Full-HD OLED TV featuring 100,000,000:1 contrast ratio and fast response time (1,000 times faster than LCD according to LG). The panel is only 4mm thick, and the whole TV weighs just 7.5Kg. The TV is based on LG Display’s Oxide-TFT white-OLED with color filters (RGBW) OLED panel. read more
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OLED was the most twitted topic on CES
Jan 13th
Mashable posted an interesting article – about CES trends and brands – measured by twitter mentions. They say that on the first three days, more people discussed OLED display technology than any other tech-world trend. It is quite obvious that Samsung ‘s and LG ‘s 55″ OLED TVs are behind this. read more
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iSuppli – only 34,000 OLED TVs to sell on 2012, will grow to 2.1 million by 2015
Jan 11th
Earler today, LG said that they hope to sell 200,000-300,000 OLED TVs in 2012 , and up to 2 million in 2013. Market research company iSuppli is much less optimistic – they say that global OLED TV shipments in 2012 will amount to just 34,000 units. This will grow to 2.1 million in 2015. It’s not clear from iSuppli’s report, but it seems that they are only taking LG into account in their forecasts. Samsung will also offer its own 55″ OLED TV in 2012 , and today we heard that Panasonic are also developing their own OLED TV . read more
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Sony quits the consumer OLED TV market, not really news
Jan 8th
The Daily Yomiuri posted an article stating that Sony has quit the consumer OLED TV market. The company will continue to produce OLED monitors for the professional/corporate market. This news was reported by a lot of online blogs and sites. Sony XEL-1 But it’s hardly surprising – and it isn’t really news… Sony’s only OLED TV, the XEL-1 was discontinued back in February 2010 . And Sony said several times that it is currently focusing on the professional market, with products such as the 24.5″ BVM-F250 broadcasting monitor . Sony still has an active OLED research program. Sony is also one of the founders of Japan Display , a new small/medium display maker.
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DisplaySearch: LG’s OLED TV will cost $8,000, will drop to $4,000 by end of 2013
Jan 3rd
DisplaySearch estimates that LG’s 55″ OLED TV (the 55EM9600 ) will retail for around $8,000 when it launches in 3Q 2012. The price will fall below $4,000 by the end of 2013 as sales volume increase and manufacturing cost will drop. DisplaySearch also says that they expect LG to sell less than 500,000 units annually of these TVs. This is actually a bit optimistic – as LG themselves said that their production line will be able to output 30,000 TVs a month (that’s only 360,000 sets a year). read more
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Amtran considers OLED TV production, waits to see market’s reaction to LG
Jan 2nd
Digitimes reports that Amtran Technologie’s CEO says that the company is interested to see the market response to LG’s 55″ OLED TV . Amtran does not rule out the possibility of producing OLED TVs. Amtran is actually an OEM monitor display producer (they supply LCD monitors to Apple) – and are focused on 23″ and 27″ monitors. It may be that the actually mean to start producing OLED monitors and not OLED TVs. read more
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LG releases new photos, details on their upcoming 55" OLED TV
Jan 2nd
One week after LG Display officially announced their upcoming 55″ OLED TV panel , LG Electronics now released their own PR with new details and photos – and some interesting marketing messages. They also revealed the model number: 55EM9600 . LGE says that the new panel uses their 4-Color Pixel and Color Refiner features. The four colors (RGBW) are made from white OLED subpixels with color filters ( Kodak’s technology ). The “Color Refiner” is a set of algorithms which improves and refine hues and tones. LG says that their OLED TV will generate the most natural colors of any TV set – at a much lower price point than could have been achieved using the standard OLED manufacturing process. read more
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Samsung and LG to introduce 55" OLED TVs at CES 2012, products shipping in July 2011
Nov 21st
According to reports both Samsung and LG Display plan to introduce 55″ OLED TVs at CES 2012 (January 10). This is not surprising as this was announced before . According to the new reports, both companies want to introduce the products before the 2012 Olympics (which is a big event towards which many consumers buy a new TV) – which means we can expect those OLED TVs shipping at around July 2011. LG OLED TV prototype The same reports re-iterates the old rumors regarding an Apple OLED TV . I’m still skeptical on this because in 2012 OLED TV capacity will be low (LG for example says it will be able to produce around 30,000 panels per month ) – not enough for Apple. Samsung will also be producing their large panels in a pilot line and will not be able to mass produce these panels. read more
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Your next private jet may include OLED buttons…
Nov 8th
Flight Display Systems has a new Cabin Management System (called Select CMS ) which includes all sorts of modules and buttons. The buttons are based on OLED displays, and the company offers three available modules (with single, double or triple OLED buttons). It looks pretty good, and it was already installed in a Gulfstream III aircraft . Here’s a video introducing the new system and showcasing the OLED displays: