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Global TV Shipments Hold Steady in Q4 2025 as China Stumbles, Emerging Markets Surge

by Shawnee Blackwood

The China decline was not a surprise to those who have been tracking the market closely. Government subsidy programs that had pulled forward consumer upgrades throughout 2024 and into early 2025 ran their course, and the resulting hangover was sharp.

Tags:market research| omdia| showcase| TV market

TCL Brings Its Paper-Like NXTPAPER Technology to AMOLED, Opening a New Front in the Eye-Comfort Display Race

by Joseph Bryans

By pairing 3,200-nit AMOLED performance with hardware blue-light reduction, nano-matrix anti-glare, and circadian tuning, TCL and panel maker CSOT are betting that ‘healthy OLED’ is the next differentiator in a market Korean suppliers have so far defined around brightness and color volume.

Tags:AMOLED| MWC 2026| Nxtpaper| showcase| TCL

LG Display Earns Industry-First ‘100% Dimming Consistency’ Certification, Sharpening OLED’s Edge Over MiniLED

by Emory Kale

UL Solutions testing reveals LCD and RGB MiniLED panels reach only 43–83% dimming consistency, while LG’s self-emissive OLED panels hold at 100% across all measured window sizes — a structurally advantaged result that nonetheless sets a new industry benchmark as Chinese MiniLED makers press higher.

Tags:LG| MIneLED| OLED| showcase

UBI Research Puts a $52,000 Price Tag on 101-Inch MicroLED TV

by Shawnee Blackwood

Panel materials, the pixels and associated substrate, dominate the BOM cost structure.

Tags:MicroLED| showcase| UBI Research

Apple’s March Display Push: What Two Studio Displays and a Budget MacBook Mean for the Panel Business

by Joseph Bryans

The headline move for the monitor market is the rumored Studio Display 2.

Tags:Apple| IPS| MiniLED| OLED| showcase

Section 301 Is Now the Tariff Floor. The Display Industry Should Plan Accordingly.

by Emory Kale

The Supreme Court’s ruling narrowed presidential tariff authority but left Section 301 on China fully intact and, if anything, more politically durable. For the display industry, that resolves the uncertainty in the worst possible direction for anyone still hoping for a near-term unwind. Tariffs on China-origin display hardware are now a structural, model-worthy input. The routing questions, the sourcing questions, the capex questions, they all have to be answered in that light.

Alibaba’s Display Industry Pitch: MiniLED Wins, and China Supplies It

by Emory Kale

A closer look at the company’s 2026 backlight report reveals findings that happen to validate every major bet Chinese manufacturers have made.

Tags:Market Data| MiniLED| QD OLEDs| showcase

The Smartphone Panel Market Faces a Reality Check in 2026

by Joseph Bryans

After last year’s euphoria what else did you expect.

LG Display Turns to Nvidia PhysicsNeMo to Compress OLED Development Cycles

by Emory Kale

A previously disclosed AI system deployed on LG Display’s OLED production lines provides real-time alerts and suggested solutions for quality anomalies.

Tags:ai| display manufacturing| LG| OLED| showcase

Foxconn Walks Away from Sharp’s Kameyama LCD Plant, and That Tells You Everything

by Emory Kale

With the sale off the table, Sharp plans to halt production at Kameyama No. 2 by around August 2026.

Tags:Foxconn| LCD| sharp| showcase

Display’s Big Six Post Strongest Results in Years as OLED Shift Pays Off

by Joseph Bryans

Korean incumbents Samsung Display and LG Display have leveraged their OLED technology leadership to rebuild margins, while Chinese scale players BOE, TCL CSOT, and HKC have used aggressive capacity utilization and cost discipline to generate strong cash flows.

State of the Display Industry: Q1 2026

by Emory Kale

Disciplined on LCD, racing in OLED, navigating a tariff-heavy world,