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iPhone X – Boom or Bust or Both?

by Norbert Hildebrand

In recent weeks many articles discussed the situation of the iPhone X and especially reports from Asia that Apple has reduced their orders for iPhone X components significantly for the first quarter of 2018. …

IHS: Chinese Panel Makers Catching Up in LTPS LCD Panel Shipments for Mobile

by Andrew Fenn

Total shipments of mobile phone displays, including TFT LCD and AMOLED panels, reached 2.01 billion units in 2017, up 3% from 2016, according to preliminary estimates from IHS Markit. In the growing mobile phone …

Chinese OLED Makers Close to 10 Million in 2017

by Bob Raikes

Sigmaintell of China has reported that Chinese OLED makers produced 78,000 m² of OLEDs in 2017, with Visionox from Kunshan producing more than 30,000 m², a market share in China of 38.9% and with …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Small Medium Panel Supply| Vol 25 - Issue 05

Samsung Display Reduces Rigid OLED Production

by Andrew Fenn

Samsung Display’s rigid OLED production lines are dropping their output by up to 50% according to a document from ETNews in Korea. Citing industry representatives, the document states that the company has reduced the …

Tags:AMOLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Small Medium Panel Supply| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Apple Cuts iPhone X Production by 50% Due to Low Sales

by Andrew Fenn

Apple will halve its iPhone X production output, due to lower-than-expected sales in key markets during the 2017 holiday season according to Nikkei and Bloomberg. The company has informed its suppliers that it will …

Full Screen Displays Head for Quarter Billion

by Bob Raikes

Sigmaintell has reported that almost a quarter billion ‘full screen’ displays have been sold in 2017, with nearly 200 million in the second half of the year. Samsung is by far the biggest supplier, …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 01

DSCC: Quarterly OLED Revenues Over $5B in Q3’17

by Bob Raikes

Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) has released the first issue of its Quarterly OLED Shipment and Fab Utilization Report Quarterly OLED revenues exceeded $5 billion for the first time in Q3 17 and are …

Sigmaintell Expects Small Penetration for OLED in Automotive

by Bob Raikes

Sigmaintell of China predicted that AMOLED will win just 1.5% of the automotive display market on a volume basis by 2020. The company highlighted the challenges for OLEDs in meeting the high temperature and …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Small Medium Panel Supply| Vol 24 - Issue 47

Small Panel Makers See Overall Improvement

by Yvette Raikes

Last month, the small and medium panel makers we track saw the overall volume drop 3.1% MoM and 6.1% YoY. This time the monthly fall was reduced to 1.1% while YoY the number of …

DSCC Looks at OLED Developments

by Bob Raikes

DSCC recently ran an event in Tokyo under the title “Roadmap to Display OLEDisation” and kindly sent us some information from the event. One of the topics that analyst, Yoshio Tamura, talked about was …

Tianma Rises on Strong LTPS

by Bob Raikes

Sigmaintell has released its data on the supply of panels for smartphones in Q3 2017. The total volume was around 1% on last year and Q3 is typically the peak volume quarter of the …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 44

iPhone X Sell-out Pushes AMOLED Screens

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it (…and anyone on-line at 12:15 AM PST last Friday did) the pre-order party for Apple’s newest iPhone X with 5.85-inch full edge-to-edge AMOLED screen sold out in the first …