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MiniLEDs Create Opportunity for OLED IT Panel Makers

by Barry Young

As LCD makers looked to differentiate their product by offering LCDs with miniLED backlights with greater contrast ratio and higher luminance, they, in effect, opened more of the 270m unit notebook market to OLEDs, …

Tags:Notebooks| OLED Fabs| OLEDs| Pricing| Samsung Display

Samsung’s Smartphone Dilemma

by Barry Young

Over the past 2 years, Samsung Mobile sold 340m more smartphones, generated $172.7 billion less in revenue and $87.2 billion less in operating profits than Apple’s iPhone. Apple generates 37% of all smartphone revenue …

Tags:Apple| Financial Data| Market Data| Samsung| Smartphones

The Likelihood and Timing of a Consumer Priced µLED TV

by Barry Young

LGE joined the MicroLED TV club and now there are three members. The announcement provides more insight into the past than it does the future. The µLED TV is composed of segments that are …

Tags:Manufacturing| MicroLED| Pricing

The Flat Panel Industry as it Enters Q421

by Barry Young

Large panel capacity is up 5.7% Y/Y, due to the growth in China, offset somewhat by Samsung’s partial exit from LCD production. Samsung’s large area display capacity share has dropped from 11% in Q120 …

Tags:Financial Data| LCD Fabs| Market Data| OLED TVs| OLEDs

SDP Global to Supply Innolux with Panels from Its Gen 10.5 Fab

by Barry Young

Terry Gou has big ideas. In 1974,he founded Foxconn, now China’s largest private employer and exporter assembling the largest share of iPhone and hundreds of other products. But he wanted to move up the …

Tags:AUO| China| Foxconn (Honhai)| Innolux| LCD Fabs| sharp

Samsung Takes a Hard Look at Its Mobile Division

by Barry Young

By most measures Samsung Electronics (SEC) is having a banner H121: total revenues are up 19.2% Y/Y and net profits are up even more, 34.4%. Visual Display (the TV & monitor business) revenues are …

Tags:Financial Data| MiniLED| QD OLEDs| Samsung| TCL

OLEDs –Revolutionizing the Essence of Product Design – Part 1

by Barry Young

Industrial designers, when exposed to OLED technology are free to explore structures previously inconceivable with 2-dimensional displays. Foldable smartphones just scratch the surface of what a creative designer can do with flexible OLED technology. …

Tags:Automotive| OLEDs| Patents| TVs (TV Sets)

Getting to BT 2020 — OLEDs vs. LCDs

by Barry Young

In 2012, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), an international agency regulating telecommunications under the umbrella of the U.N., released its recommendations for the Ultra HD market to help define the parameters for future video …

Tags:Colour (Color)| Quantum Dots| Rec 2020| Rec 709

AR Display Luminance Requirements: Micro OLEDs vs. Micro LEDs

by Barry Young

eMagin COO Amal Ghosh (and former SID President) presented at the DisplayWeek’ symposium providing an update on the status and requirements for AR displays. Of particular note is that despite wild speculation, the # …

Tags:Microdisplays| MicroLED| OLEDs

The Display Market in 2021 – Part 1

by Barry Young

DisplayWeek started on a high note as market analysts in the DSCC/SID Business Conference proclaimed 2021 to be a year of startling growth in both shipments and revenue. Part of the growth is a …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs| Market Data| OLEDs| SID Display Week 2021| Smartphone Market| TVs (TV Sets)