During the keynote session of IMID 2015 (August 18 – 21), LG Display’s Sang Deog Yeo, the head of OLED division revealed LG Display’s intention to change the world with OLED together with everyone and strength in OLED industry expansion.
On August 13 (local time), Samsung Electronics unveiled Galaxy Note5 and Galaxy S6 Edge Plus in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, US.
With the great increase of interest in flexible OLED from China and Taiwan’s small and medium-sized panel companies, diverse issues related to this are emerging.
The analysis of 2015 2Q results of Samsung Display and LG Display shows clear indication that Korean display industry is on descent.
At SID 2015 Review Workshop held in Konkuk University on July 31, Inha University’s Associate Professor Jae-Hyeung Park announced that interest in HUD (head-up display) and HMD (head-mounted display) increased at SID 2015.
On July 29, at Chungcheong Display Forum held in Hoseo University in South Korea, an encapsulation technology that can greatly increase OLED lifetime was revealed.
On July 23, LG Display announced its earnings results at LG Twin Towers in Yeouido, South Kore and approx. US$ 900,000,000 investment for Gen6 flexible OLED line in order to lead flexible OLED market.
Recent Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics’ TV and smartphone performance results are causing experts to be concerned over degrowth. The only thing that is left for Korean display industry is OLED.
On July 30, Samsung Electronics announced their second quarter earnings results & future outlook via conference call. Flexible price strategy was announced.
On July 29, LG Electronics announced its earnings results. It was forecast that in Q3 the premium TV market will grow and increase the UHD OLED TV sales.
On July 23, LG Display announced its earnings results at LG Twin Towers in Yeouido, South Korea. During this event, LG Display revealed its decision to invest approximately US$ 900 million in Gen6 flexible OLED line in order to lead the flexible OLED market.
Considering active release of UHD TV occurred in 2014, OLED 8K TV’s market release is estimated to be in 2019-2020. It is analyzed that approximately 3 years are left to prepare for 8K TV mass production.
On July 10, Visionox unveiled newest flexible AMOLED panel of rollable type through their website. The unveiled flexible AMOLED panel has the curvature radius of 3mm with 20um of thickness, and can be curled into a cylinder.
On 20 July, Samsung Electronics announced the launch of the Galaxy Tab S2 (8.0inch, 9.7inch), with the thinnest and lightest metal frame of its size on the market.
At the 10th National Research Development Industry General Workshop in Display (8-10 July) in Muju, South Korea, industry-academy experts gathered and held a discussion on the future display strategy under the heading ‘Korean Display Industry Crisis, What is the Solution?’.
OLED TV price, once again, dropped down by a large margin. LG Electronics’ new 2015 model 65inch 4K Ultra HD curved OLED TV fell to US$ 6,999.
Korean TV industry, according to recent reports by media, is showing a red light not being able to escape the deficit structure. OLED TV is the only answer.
LG Chem estimates mass production of highly efficient 100lm/W OLED lighting panel in April this year. In Lighting Fair Japan 2015 (March 3 – 6) LG Chem announced that they have achieved 2014 target of 100lm/W development, and that mass……
Korean researchers have developed the highly efficient florescent organic light-emitting device which enables to enhance the efficiency more than three times and is receiving much attention as the next generation display…
The life of OLED lighting panel is improving equal to the level of LED (more than 50,000 hours).
According to the NIKKEI report, Kaneka developed the OLED lighting panel with a lifetime of 50,000 hours. The panel is 8×8 cm in size and 1 mm thick, and samples are shipped to some lighting companies…
As Apple announces the Apple watch on the 9th (local time), the battle of a smart watch began for electronic companies including Samsung, LG, Apple, Sony, Motorola, and even ASUS…
AMOLED latecomers; BOE, AUO and Tianma are rapidly catching up the AMOLED development of Samsung Display (SDC) and LG Display (LGD) at SID 2014.