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CPT Signs Technology Agreement with ITRI

by Helen Vince

Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) has signed a technology transfer agreement with ITRI, which will enable CPT to integrate ITRI’s flexible AMOLED and touch panel technology into its handheld and wearable devices. The two companies …

Flexible OLED Manufacturing Ramps Up

by Ken Werner

In late July, LG Display announced it will invest KRW 1.05 trillion (USD 902 million) in a Gen 6 line for manufacturing flexible OLEDs (LGD to Invest $906 Million in G6 OLED Fab – …

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Touch Taiwan: ITRI to Show Foldable AMOLED

by Tom Allen

Lee Cheng-Chung, deputy general director at Taiwan’s ITRI, has said that the organisation will show a 7″ foldable AMOLED display at Touch Taiwan 2015 (26th – 28th August). ITRI’s AMOLED display will have 1920 …

Glass-Based OLED Growth Slows

by Tom Allen

IDTechEx has revised its forecast for the global OLED displays market. The firm says that glass-based OLEDs are not growing as fast as expected (mostly due to Samsung’s ‘disappointing’ mobile phone sales). The market …

Visionox Develops Rollable OLED

by Tom Allen

Visionox has shown a prototype rollable, flexible AMOLED panel. It is a 4.6″ unit with 800 x 480 resolution. The prototype has a curvature radius of sub-3mm and a thickness of 20µm. The plan, …

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Tensions in France

by Bob Raikes

I’m just coming to the end of my “vacation”. We enjoyed peaceful and good natured fireworks for the 13th/14th July festivities, but in the area of Normandy that we are staying, fourteen cars were …

Samsung Patents Large and Small Foldable Screens

by Tom Allen

Although patents are not normally an area that we cover, this one should be noted. Samsung has been awarded a patent by the US Patent & Trademark Office, for a flexible display for foldable …

Flexible Technology Will Drive Display Revenues

by Tom Allen

The flexible display market is on the rise – not as a niche product, but as an increasingly-important part of the display market’s revenues. IHS DisplaySearch expects these products to represent 15% of total …

OLED iPhone? Not For Three Years

by Tom Allen

A report from Business Korea claims that Apple will launch a curved-screen iPhone in 2018. The phone would feature an OLED display, according to the rumour. (frankly – I would treat with extreme caution …

Is Flexible OLED Possible for Apple’s iPhone?

by Tom Allen

UBI Research, of Korea, writes that flexible AMOLED displays are the newest form of smartphone differentiation. Now that hardware performance has improved ‘as much as possible’, Samsung and LG are using flexible screens to …

Guangzhou NV Achieves 0.01mm AMOLED Thickness

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeGuangzhou New Vision, of China, has unveiled a 0.01mm-thick prototype flexible AMOLED panel. The unit uses a polyimide substrate, oxide-TFT backplane and RGB front plane. Curvature radius is 4.5mm. A video of …

SDC to Triple Flexible OLED Production in 2015

by Tom Allen

The OLED Association says that Samsung has been investing in existing fabs, aiming to triple flexible OLED production by the end of the year. A new tool from Tera Semicon will be installed. Capacity …