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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 2

by Barry Young

This is the second part of my report from the DSCC/SID Business Conference which took place last week, but which is still available online to registered attendees. Part 1 is here (The Display Market …

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

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)

OLED TVs – SDC, Samsung Visual and LGD – A Double Reversal of Fortune

by Barry Young

President Han Jong-hee at Samsung Electronics (Visual Display) recently agreed to use QD-OLED panels in their TVs, after almost a year of claiming the technology was inconsistent with their current strategy of using LCDs …

Tags:China| Large LCD Supply| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| OLED TVs| QD OLEDs| Samsung