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TCL plans a 8.5-Gen Oxide-TFT OLED TV fab in Shenzhen
Oct 28th
In July 2013, Chinese media reported that TCL’s CSOT subsidiary is planning to establish a 8.5-Gen OLED TV fab . Today JRJ reports that TCL announced it it will invest 24.4 billion yuan (just over $4 billion) to build a new 8.5-Gen TV fab in Shenzhen, owned by Shenzhen Huaxing Photoelectric Technology (and not CSOT ). This fab (called Huaxing Power Two) will have two lines, one for a-Si LCDs (100,000 monthly substrates) and one for Oxide-TFT OLED TV panels (30,000 monthly substrates). According to the report, construction of this fab will commence towards the end of 2013. TCL is yet to raise the money for this fab. Read more about TCL plans a 8.5-Gen Oxide-TFT OLED TV fab in Shenzhen
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LG says their curved OLED TV is simple and more efficient than Samsung’s one
Oct 26th
LG says that according to independent testing by UBI Research, their 55EA9800 curved OLED TV is superior to Samsung’s KN55S9C in several aspects. So first of all, LG display’s OLED TV is much smaller. It weighs 17.2 Kg while Samsung’s TV weighs 32.8 Kg. LG’s TV is also 8.2 mm slimmer (4.3 mm vs 12.5 mm) and has a narrower side and top/bottom bezels. LG says that this is because their TV design is much more simple. They say they use 952 circuit components while Samsung uses 3382 components. Read more about LG says their curved OLED TV is simple and more efficient than Samsung's one
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Samsung reports a record revenue, sees increased OLED panel sales
Oct 25th
Samsung posted their quarterly results for Q3 2013 – a record operation profit of $9.6 billion from sales of $55 billion. Net profit was over $7.7 billion. Smartphone sales growth is slowing, but Samsung’s business was booster but memory chip profits and cheaper smartphone sales (what they call mass-market products). Regarding OLEDs, the company says that high end smartphone OLED panel sales increased. This includes newer products such as the Note 3 . For Q4 2013, the company plans to enhance OLED market leadership by “improving differentiated product offerings such as 5.7” FHD (Glass & Curved)”. Read more about Samsung reports a record revenue, sees increased OLED panel sales
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OLED pioneers Ching Tang and Steven Van Slyke were inducted into the 2013 Consumer Electronics hall of fame
Oct 25th
Dr. Ching Tang and Steven Van Slyke are two OLED pioneers – in fact you can say that they invented OLEDs back in 1987 in Eastman Kodak. The two wrote a seminal paper on OLEDs that has been cited in more than 5000 publications. Now the two pioneers were inducted into the 2013 Consumer Electronics hall of fame. Dr. Ching Tang is currently a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Rochester. Steven Van Slyke is the CTO of Kateeva – developing an inventive inkjet printing manufacturing equipment solution for mass production of flexible and large-size OLEDs. We interviewed Steven back in 2008 when he was still at Kodak . Read more about OLED pioneers Ching Tang and Steven Van Slyke were inducted into the 2013 Consumer Electronics hall of fame
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Samsung sold 40 million GS4 phones in six months
Oct 25th
Samsung announced today that they sold over 40 million Galaxy S4 phones worldwide, six months after launching their flagship phone . This is an impressive number but it’s actually lower than Samsung first anticipated – the company hoped to sell 10 million devices a month and reach 100 million sales . Samsung’s GS4 features a 4.99″ Full-HD (19201280, 441 PPI) Super AMOLED display, an Octa-core (Quadcore in some models) 1.6Ghz CPU, 2GB of memory, 13 mp camera and a 2,600 mAh battery. The GS4 includes a lot of new software features and special UI controls, include the Adapt Display which allows extensive display calibration adjustments. Read more about Samsung sold 40 million GS4 phones in six months
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Samsung sells their stake in their LCD glass JV to Corning, will take a 7.4% stake in Corning
Oct 25th
Corning and Samsung announced a complicated deal today – Corning will buy out Samsung Display’s stake in their LCD glass joint venture (Samsung Corning Precision Materials, or SCP). In exchange, Samsung will receive convertible preferred shares in Corning that are valued at $1.9 billion and will acquire more shares for $400 million. If Samsung converts all these shares, they will own 7.4% of Corning. Corning estimates that this move will add about $2 billion in annual sales and about $350 million in profit. As part of the deal, the two companies signed a new 10-year LCD display glass supply agreement. Corning will also buy other minority shareholders in SCP for about $300 million, and will also pay a special $1.4 billion dividend payment to SDC. Read more about Samsung sells their stake in their LCD glass JV to Corning, will take a 7.4% stake in Corning
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CPT starts small-scale AMOLED production, may collaborate with AIV-BEX on OLED development
Oct 18th
In 2012 we reported that CPT (Chunghwa Picture Tubes), a Taiwanese LCD and CRT producer, started developing AMOLED panels and established a small-sized pilot line . Today our sources indicate that the company actually started small scale AMOLED production. I don’t have a lot of information on CPT’s line at this stage. AIV-BEX also announced that a delegation from the company visited CPT’s AMOLED line earlier in October. It seems that the two companies are in talks about a possible technical collaboration. AIV-BEX plans to construct a 4.5-Gen line that uses Oxide-TFT backplanes (CPT is also developing this technology, although the current production line is not using iGZO) and ink-jet printing for the organic material deposition AIV-BEX’s line will have a monthly capacity of 30,000 sheets and the plan is to begin production in 2014 . Read more about CPT starts small-scale AMOLED production, may collaborate with AIV-BEX on OLED development
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AUO finally begins AMOLED mass production at their Singapore’s AFPD fab
Oct 17th
According to our sources, AUO finally started AMOLED mass production in their AFPD subsidiary in Singapore. AFPD has a Gen-4.5 LTPS fab that was converted for AMOLED production. The fab has a monthly capacity of 45,000 substrates but it’s not clear whether all the lines were converted to AMOLED and how many OLED panels are currently produced there. AUO 4.4-inch AMOLED prototype I’m not sure which panels are being produced there at the moment, but it’s likely that AUO is producing the panels they have recently unveiled at trade shows – 4.4″ 1900600 (413 PPI) panel , 5″ Full-HD (443 PPI) panel and their newest 5″ HD720 AMOLED panels . Earlier reports suggested that HTC and Sony are waiting to integrate AUO’s AMOLEDs in their mobile devices . Read more about AUO finally begins AMOLED mass production at their Singapore's AFPD fab
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Ignis’ 55" OLED TV samples arrive, company says their technology enables lifetime and efficiency boost
Oct 16th
Last month Ignis Innovation announced that they began producing some 55″ OLED TV evaluation samples for display makers to test their MaxLife compensation technology . The company now tells us that the first sample panel arrived at their offices, and they will start fulfilling orders (to display makers and OEMs) in about two weeks. The company did some initial measurements, and they say that this panel offers the world’s lowest power consumption (20% lower than LG and Samsung’s current OLED TVs ), longest lifetime (a significant boost over existing OLED panels). The panels are highly uniform (much better than the OLED TVs no the market). Read more about Ignis' 55" OLED TV samples arrive, company says their technology enables lifetime and efficiency boost
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Is this the LG Flex, LG’s upcoming 6" flexible OLED smartphone?
Oct 14th
Engadget said they got hold of the following “press renders” showing LG’s upcoming LG Flex phone that will sport a flexible OLED display. Engadget also reports that they confirmed that the OLED panel will be 6″ in size and the phone will be announced in November. As you see this phone is curved from top to bottom. I think this makes more sense than Samsung’s Galaxy Round which also uses a flexible OLED but is curved from left to right. Of course we’ll have to wait for someone to review both phones to see which design is better. I’m guessing in coming months we’ll see several new phone designs using flexible panels as makers try to figure out how best to use curved displays. Read more about Is this the LG Flex, LG's upcoming 6" flexible OLED smartphone?
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Is this the LG Flex, LG’s upcoming 6" flexible OLED smartphone?