The PIDA in Taiwan, a trade association, has said that it expects the use of OLEDs in automotive displays to take off from 2018 with demand for automotive displays expected to develop from 94.64 million units in 2015 to 101.95 million in 2016. The forecast for 2022 is 173.26 million, said the PIDA, quoting Yano Research of Japan.
Analyst Comment
The PIDA wins our award for the least frequently updated website – the news side seems to have been last updated in 2009! It explains the Taiwanese photonics industry quoting a forecast for 2004.
The feedback we were getting at CES was that there are still too many issues around lifetimes and screen burn for OLED to be qualified for automotive applications as quickly as 2018 although a lot of work will be going on to support this. To be adopted in by 2018, the displays would have had to be designed in already, which would mean that they would already have to be qualified. That’s not to say that OLEDs couldn’t be used in some places. My Toyota Celica was a 2000 model and had an OLED fuel guage (that dimmed visibly during the car’s life). I also had it fitted with a Pioneer (if I remember correctly) car radio that used an OLED display. (BR)
