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Sri Peruvemba is the head of marketing for SID and he presented the annual press breakfast event. We were up early to get there for you. Pre-registration was looking very good and up 15% on the last time the event was in Los Angeles and more than last year’s event. A new innovation, the CEO … Read more
Junji Adachi is CEO of Kyulux which is developing TADF-like materials with hyperfluoresence. The company is based in Fukuoka in Japan and also has an operation in Boston. The company is planning to show materials in demonstrations at SID during Display Week. Adachi said that the problem of TADF is that the spectrum of emissions … Read more
Dr. Andreas Haldi is CMO from Cynora and is a veteran of Novaled. Cynora is a German company with 100 TADF researchers from 16 countries. It is planning to double its facility to 4,000 m², shortly. Investors in Cynora include LG Display and Samsung. He started by saying that UDC has good technology for OLED … Read more
Dr Mike Hack is from UDC and we have reported his talks many times over the years. He started by saying that it has been ‘quite a ride’ in developing the OLED business. UDC material has been in commercial products for ten years and is made by its partner, PPG. It has red, yellow and … Read more
Russel Kempt is from Nanosys and he started by saying that the company is qualifying its P6 production line that is ‘significantly’ larger than the previous P4 line which can make volume quantum dots (QDs). The next stage is to develop production in Asia. Nanosys only makes materials for displays and that is a strength, … Read more
Dr Millicent Ruffin is from Corning and she started by covering some of the issues covered by Corning earlier – we could have done without the duplication. Most of what she said was just an advert for Corning, but I guess that’s what you get from a big sponsor! However, she then got onto talking … Read more
Eric Joely is CEO of CoreFlow which makes handling solutions for thin and flexible OLED substrates. The company has been around since 1999 and has over 800 installations. Handling very thin substrates is very difficult not only with the final display, but with each individual layer as the materials are brought into the production process. … Read more
Rainer is from Coherent which is a laser supplier based in Santa Clara. (We previously reported a talk from Paetzel from the 2011 Business Conference) It makes lasers that are used in the manufacturing processes for display manufacturing. A range of different lasers are needed for the different processes. Some are different according to the … Read more
Terry Yu is Marketing Director for Visionox although at one time he was an analyst at DisplaySearch and IHS. He looked at the development of OLED. Quoting data from GfK, Yu showed how the market for smartphones has matured since 2015, with only 6% growth in 2016, 4% in 2017 and just 2% expected in … Read more
Prof. Byeong-Soo Bae is from Solip Tech which is a spin-out from Kaist in Korea and was set up to exploit and develop a patented epoxy siloxane flexible hard coating materials for flexible displays. It then got VC funding. There is a lot of interest in foldable and flexible displays, he said, but you need … Read more
Ryosuke Kuwada is from TPK in Taiwan and is a veteran of several large companies. He pointed out that talks from TPK are unusual (this was the first one that we could remember!). The company has more than 20,000 employees and has sales of $3.5 billion and is one of the largest touch technology companies. … Read more
Tamura-san is from DSCC and is a very experienced display industry analyst and he talked about the smartphone market. The Apple iPhone X was a lot more expensive than he expected and as a result, the phone saw lower volumes than some hoped, so there is excess supply capacity for flexible OLEDs. On the other … Read more
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