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Samsung Continues OLED Transition

by Tom Allen

According to Hangkyung News of Korea, Samsung is planning to close down more of its LCD manufacturing lines, replacing them with OLED facilities. Specifically, the source names Samsung’s L7 plant in Asan, S.Korea. This …

Nikkei: Samsung Will Raise OLED Production by 50%

by Tom Allen

The Nikkei newspaper claims that Samsung will invest about KRW8 trillion ($6.8 billion) to boost OLED panel production this year. The move will raise capacity by about 50%, or 200 million smartphone panels, at …

Tags:AMOLED| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Vol 23 - Issue 24

SDC to Convert LCD Lines to Flexible OLED

by Tom Allen

The new CEO of Samsung Display, Kwon Oh-hyun (Samsung Electronics CEO Joins SDC), is already making changes. According to Business Korea, SDC will sell some of its G7 LCD production line at the Tangjeong …

Samsung Leads OLEDs With 95% Share

by Tom Allen

Korea’s UBI Research estimates that Samsung Display’s OLED shipments now represent 95% of the global total, as rising numbers of smartphone makers adopt its AMOLED panels. In Q1’16, 91.3 million OLED displays were shipped …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Samsung Display| Vol 23 - Issue 23

Samsung Back at SID – but ‘No Meetings’

by Bob Raikes

Samsung Display was missed at the SID event last year (it was concentrating on promoting its branded products last year, rather than components, we heard), so we were pleased to see the company back …

KN3 OLEDs are the Only Viable Future Technology – Samsung

by Bob Raikes

The third keynote was by Sun-Chul Kim who is Exective VP and Chief of the Research Center of Samsung Display and his topic was ‘AMOLED Technical Issues and Forecasts’ He started with a discussion …

SID: Colour E Ink, Flexible AMOLEDs, New QDs – and More!

by Tom Allen

SID 2016 is ongoing at the time of writing, and we will have a full report for you in the coming weeks. For now, we have summarised some of the key announcements from the …

Large LCD Shipments Fall, but Area is Rising

by Tom Allen

Shipment area of large (9″+) TFT-LCD displays will rise 5% YoY in 2016, despite unit shipment declines, says IHS. Total area shipped this year will reach 168 million m². LG Display will lead the …

OLED Display – Will it be able to Help Apple?

by Sweta Dash

Apple Corporation reported its first-ever decline in iPhone sales in its recent fiscal quarter (Apple’s 13-Year Growth Grinds to a Halt – subscription required). Its iPhone sales accounted for two third of company’s revenue …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Samsung Display| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Thinking Big Thoughts

by Ken Werner

As SID Display Week approaches with frightening rapidity, we should be thinking big thoughts and getting ready to ask big questions of the experts — real and imagined — who will gather in San …

Tags:Cambrios| OLED TVs| Samsung Display| Vol 23 - Issue 18

The Future for Large OLED

by Bob Raikes

We had a short week after a public holiday on Monday. We were working on the report from the IdTechEx event in Berlin, but didn’t get it finished because of the restricted time. We’ll …

Samsung Electronics CEO Joins SDC

by Tom Allen

Kwon Oh-hyun, current CEO of Samsung Electronics, will double his role and take on the position of CEO of Samsung Display – replacing Park Dong-gun. The change is seen as a way to generate …