DisplayBank: AMOLED shipments grew 8% in Q2 2012
IHS DisplayBank say that AMOLED shipments grew 8% in the second quarter of 2012, after decreasing slightly (2.5%) in the first quarter. Total shipments in Q2 were a little over 35 million units....
View ArticleDisplaySearch: only 50,000 OLED TVs will be sold in 2013, 9 million in 2016
DisplaySearch released their 2012-2016 global TV market forecasts. They have reduced OLED TV shipments to just 500 units in 2012 and 50,000 in 2013. Meanwhile, 4K2K LCD TVs are expected to grow from...
View ArticleSamsung sold 3 million Galaxy II phones in 37 days
Samsung announced that they sold over 3 million Galaxy Note II phones - only 37 days after its release. This is three times faster than the previous Galaxy Note (which sold over 10 million units in 9...
View ArticleYole Développement sees a $1.7 billion OLED lighting market in 2020
Yole Développement released a new report (OLED for lighting 2012-2020) in which they forecast that the OLED lighting market will kickstart in 2014, and grow to $1.7 billion in revenues by 2020. Growth...
View ArticleSamsung sold over 30 million Galaxy S3 phones
Samsung announced it has sold over 30 million Galaxy S3 phones. The S3 is probably Samsung's best selling smartphone ever (in June Samsung said it sold over 28 million S2 phones, so it's probably close...
View ArticleSamsung sold over 5 million Galaxy Note II phones in less than 3 months
Samsung announced that they sold over 5 million Galaxy Note II phones. In the beginning of November they announced 3 million units sold - so it means they sold 2 million in less than a month. The Note...
View ArticleDisplayBank says OLED shipments in Q3 grew 6.5% due to better production yields
DisplayBank says that AMOLED production shipments grew in Q3 2012 due to better yields at Samsung's 5.5-Gen AMOLED fabs. Q3 shipments grew 6.5% compared to Q1 and Q2 (which were flat). By area of panel...
View ArticleWill Samsung and LGD focus on 4K2K LCDs and delay OLED TVs to 2014?
DisplaySearch posted an interesting blog post, in which they say that both Samsung and LG Display have decided, due to technical difficulties with OLED TV production, to put more emphasis in...
View ArticleDisplaySearch: small/medium OLED penetration to more than double by 2015
DisplaySearch says that AMOLED displays have captured 6% of the small/medium display market in 2012 (this means displays that are 9" in size and smaller). They say that in 2015 penetration will more...
View ArticleSamsung sold over a million Note II phones in Korea, on track to sell 10...
Back in November 2012 Samsung announced that they sold over 5 million Galaxy Note II phones worldwide in less than 3 months, and now we hear that the company sold over one million Note II phones in...
View ArticleLGD to decide on OLED TV capacity investment next month
LG Display's CEO, Han Sang-beom, said that the company will make a final decision on its OLED TV panel production capacity investment by early next month. Currently LGD is producing OLED panels in its...
View ArticleSamsung sold over 100 million phones from the Galaxy S series
Samsung announced that sales of phones from the Galaxy S series just reached 100 million units. The best selling phones in the series are the S2 (40 million), S3 (30 million) and S (almost 30 million)....
View ArticleNanomarkets: the OLED market will start adopting flexible glass in 2013
Nanomarkets posted an interesting article on flexible glass (based on their Flexible Glass Market report). Basically they're saying that the opportunities for flexible glass have never been better, and...
View ArticleITRI sees OLED TV market growing faster than the UHD market
Taiwan's ITRI institute says that OLED TV shipments will outpace UHD ones by 2015. While in 2013 only 50,000 OLED TVs will be sold (compared to 500,000 UHD ones), in 2015 OLED TV shipments will rise to...
View ArticleSamsung produced over 300 million AMOLED panels since 2007
Samsung Display announced that they have produced 300 million AMOLED panels since mass production started in January 2007. Samsung production rate is accelerating: it took them 53 months to produce the...
View ArticleDisplayBank sees 72 million OLED TVs sold in 2020
DisplayBank says that they expect the OLED TV market to grow to 72 million units in 2020 - and command 64% of the 45" and larger global TV market. DisplayBank says that they expect the production cost...
View ArticleA new report forecasts an OLED market of $26 billion in 2018
According to a new research by Transparency Market Reports (titled OLED Displays Market - Global Industry Analysis, Market Size, Share, Growth And Forecast, 2012 - 2018), the global OLED display market...
View ArticleiSupply lowers their OLED TV shipments estimates for 2013-2015
iSupply posted updated OLED TV shipments forecast for 2013-2015, and they see a slightly lower shipment volume compared to their previous estimates in January 2012. Now the company estimates that in...
View ArticleIDTechEx sees a $10 billion OLED display market in 2013, will reach $25...
IDTechEx expects the OLED display market to reach $10 billion in 2013 (up from about $6 billion in 2012). The market will grow to about $17.5 billion in 2015 and will reach $25 billion in 2017.The...
View ArticleNanomarkets published an OLED encapsulation executive report
AttachmentSizenanomarkets-oled-encapsulation-2012-2019-summary.pdf1.06 MBBack in October 2012 Nanomarkets released a new report (Markets for OLED Encapsulation Materials 2012 – 2019), and now they...
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