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Viewtrix to IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on May 27

Ron Mertens — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:50:27 +0300

China-based display driver IC designer Viewtrix Technology is set to IPO at the Hong Kong stock exchange (Main Board), on May 27. The company will trade with the ticker 3310.HK.

Viewtrix (also known as Yunyinggu Technology), plans to offer 52,9 million shares, with an initial price of 20.8 HKD. Viewtrix hopes to raise around 997 million HGD (or $127 million USD) from the IPO.

Korea's supreme court dismisses SFC's lawsuit against LG Chem regarding its deuterated OLED materials

Ron Mertens — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:17:32 +0300

The supreme court in Korea has made a final decision, dismissing SFC's patent lawsuit against LG Chem, regarding the company's deuterated OLED compound. The court has found that LG Chem's materials are not substantially identical to existing technology and possessed an inventive step, thus warranting the patent.

The lawsuit was originally filed by SFC together with Idemitsu Kosan. The patent in question was acquired from DuPont in 2019. SFC and Idemitsu claimed that the only change LG Chem performed is increased the deuteration rate to 40% (from 36% in existing solutions), but the court says that in addition to the increase there was also substantial technical achievement in the process.

MicroLED industry and market updates (OLED-Info Pro Video Podcast E2, 2024-05)

Ron Mertens — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:00:34 +0300

The second episode of the OLED-Info Pro Video Podcast, in which we discuss the updates from the microLED industry and market.

In this episode, we also look at the implications for the OLED industry.

Will Samsung utilize AMOLEDs produced by BOE for its Galaxy S27 phone basic model?

Ron Mertens — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:44:06 +0300

A couple of months ago we reported that Samsung Electronics, aiming to reduce its cost structure, has ordered 15 million AMOLED panels from CSOT, that are adopted in the 2026 Galaxy A57 and S FE models smartphones.

According to a new report from Korea, Samsung is in talks with BOE to the supply of more advanced AMOLED displays that will be used in the basic model of the flagship Galaxy S27 smartphone.

BOE to start mass producing 14-inch laptop OLED panels at its 8.6-Gen OLED line in Chengdu by the end of the month

Ron Mertens — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:45:00 +0300

BOE is accelerating its B16 8.6-Gen IT AMOLED fab in Chengdu, and according to the latest updates from Korea, the company will begin mass production by the end of this month (May 2026).

BOE's first products out of this new line will be 14-inch laptop OLED panels, and it will supply the first batch to ASUS and Acer (this was already reported last year). It is likely that BOE will take time to fully ramp up the new production line, but the first commercial production is an important step. BOE originally planned to begin production towards the end of 2026, but it has managed to accelerate and begin production sooner.

BOE to supply 24.5" WOLED monitor panels to ASUS from its pilot 8.5-Gen line

Ron Mertens — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:46:11 +0300

Reports from Korea suggest that BOE will begin supplying 24.5" WOLED (WRGB) monitor panels to ASUS. BOE will start shipping panels later this year.

Asus OG Swift OLED PG27AQWP-W 26.5" WOLED monitor

It is reported that this will be the first time that BOE ships commercial panels out of its WOLED 8.5-Gen pilot line in Hefei, but the company is actually already shipping some commercial panels. In any case, the quantities will be limited (as the pilot line capacity is very small).

UBI: OLED smartphone shipments declined 12% in Q1 2026, to 190 million panels

Ron Mertens — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:51:22 +0300

UBI Research says that 190 million OLED smartphone panels shipped in Q1 2026, down 12% from last year, and down 20% from the previous quarter. UBI says that the decline in shipments is mainly due to rising memory prices.

Samsung remained the leading AMOLED smartphone producer, with a 44.4% market share in the quarter, up from 42.8% last year. LG Display, with a 9% share, also increased its market share (which was 7.6% in Q1 2025).

Researchers create a next-gen color-tunable laser by coupling an OLED device with chiral liquid crystals

Ron Mertens — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:19:43 +0300

Researchers from POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) have developed a next-generation laser platform that integrates OLED emissive materials with chiral liquid crystals (CLCs). The researchers show that this new laser offers precise color control under battery-level low voltage - basically a color-tunable emitting laser.

The researchers say that the helically ordered structure of CLCs forms a periodic resonant cavity capable of selectively amplifying specific wavelengths. The CLC was transformed it into laser-like emission by coupling it with a broadband-emission OLED device. The device offers ultra-narrow linewidth of approximately 1 nm (FWHM), achieving color purity tens of times higher than that of conventional OLEDs.

From Perovskites to 8.6‑Gen: OLED‑Info Pro’s Ten Must‑Read New Reports

Ron Mertens — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:00:00 +0300

OLED‑Info Pro continues to deliver in‑depth, tightly focused research on the display ecosystem, blending technology analysis, market structure, and strategic outlooks. The newest batch of ten premium articles follows that formula, spotlighting how OLED players are responding to perovskite opportunities, process diversification, regional industrial policy, and shifting capital markets.

From equipment makers reinventing themselves in the perovskite era to country‑level ambitions in India, Japan, and beyond, these reports are designed for professionals who need more than headlines. Below is an overview of the latest stories and why each is essential reading.

OLED equipment and chemical makers enter the perovskite era (May 06, 2026)

The latest report examines how OLED deposition and materials suppliers are expanding into perovskite solar and optoelectronics, and why this transition is happening now. It explains how core OLED know‑how—vacuum chambers, thin‑film processes, encapsulation, and moisture control—maps onto perovskite device manufacturing, making this adjacent market a natural strategic extension.

The article surveys which equipment vendors and chemical houses already have perovskite projects or commercial contracts, and what types of tools or materials they are bringing to market. It then discusses market drivers, such as a plateauing OLED capex cycle versus surging interest in high‑efficiency perovskite devices, and offers practical guidance for OLED‑ecosystem companies evaluating whether and how to participate.

Kopin to setup a US OLED microdisplay production line as demand for US defense application is on the rise

Ron Mertens — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:00:00 +0300

US-based microdisplay developer Kopin Corporation announced that it has decided to build a full-scale OLED microdisplay production line, at the company's Westborough, Massachusetts headquarters.

Kopin says it purchased a state of the art OLED deposition system and all related equipment that is required for the new production line. When this line comes online, Kopin will be the second OLED microdisplay maker in the US together with Samsung's eMagin.

Toray Research Center hosts an open webinar to discuss OLED materials analysis and technologies

Ron Mertens — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:00:00 +0300

Toray Research Center (TRC) is hosting an open online webinar, with lectures focused on OLED materials analysis and evaluation. TRC, which supplies technical analysis and support for R&D and manufacturing, invites you to attend the online lectures at no cost to gain a deeper understanding of OLED technologies and the analysis of OLED devices. You can register to view the lectures here - note that the recordings will be available until June 1st.

The first lecture is focused on degradation analysis of OLED devices, by using µ-PL with gradient shaping preparation and GCIB-XPS/REELS. TRC will show how it has used microscopic photoluminescence spectroscopy on precisely prepared inclined surfaces to evaluate depth-dependent luminescence characteristics, and how the results help device makers design more efficient OLEDs.

Researchers show that the performance of the TADF-based OLEDs can be significantly improved by heating

Ron Mertens — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:46:24 +0300

Researchers from the Kaunas University of Technology, the V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics NAS of Ukraine, and Yuan Ze University, have shown that the performance of the TADF-based OLEDs can be significantly improved by heating, while extremely dependent on the applied biases. These findings are of interest, as normally high temperatures deteriorate the performance of light-emitting diodes, leading to excessive leakage currents, material degradation, and device failure.

The researchers have achieved a 5 to 6 times improvement in OLED electroluminescence when operating near the turn-on voltage and heating to 50 °C, but also report that the enhancement decreases at higher applied biases. At the same time, current characteristics reveal normal and abnormal regions, where currents increase and decrease with temperature, respectively.

TCL CSOT: the main building in the T8 8.6-Gen inkjet printing IT AMOLED line has been topped out, ahead of schedule

Ron Mertens — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:44:40 +0300

TCL CSOT has announced that the main building in its upcoming T8 8.6-Gen inkjet printing IT AMOLED Production line in Guangzhou has been topped out. The company is now starting to build the cleanrooms inside the building, install the power system, and then install the core equipment.

TCL CSOT started constructing this building on November 30, 2025, and it took only 151 days to complete the main structure - this is said to be a new industry record - and is actually ahead of TCL CSOT's original schedule.

Sigmaintell: the global OLED smartphone market rose 4.7% in Q1 2026, to 202 million units

Ron Mertens — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:29:27 +0300

According to Sigmaintell, global OLED smartphone shipments reached 202 million units in Q1 2026, up 4.7% from Q1 2025 (193 million) thanks to higher demand for flexible AMOLED panels from Apple and Samsung Electronics, and also from Chinese smartphone brands.

Rigid OLED shipments dropped 33% from last year, but flexible OLED shipments rose 19%. The market share of Korean flexible OLED makers (Samsung Display and LGD) rose to 42.8%, up 8% from last year. Samsung Display shipped 55 million OLED panels in Q1 2026 - up over 50% from last year.

Omdia: Inkjet printing carries many important advantages for OLED production, will be 30-35% cheaper than FMM for laptop panel production

Ron Mertens — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:34:41 +0300

Omdia estimates that producing a laptop OLED panel using inkjet printing is about 30-35% lower in cost compared to traditional FMM production. Both technologies are expected to slowly reduce production costs, but the gap will remain rather constant, at least in the next 3 years.

Inkjet printing, according to Omdia, provides many advantages over conventional technologies. - advantages in red, green, and blue (RGB) subpixel patterning, greater material utilization, flexibility, panelization, and larger pixel apertures. At the same time, equipment and maintenance costs are lower than those required by FMM processes. All of this translates to lower production costs.

TCL CSOT demonstrates a 1700PPI Real-RGB 2.24" AMOLED display for AR applications

Ron Mertens — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:50:09 +0300

TCL CSOT is showing a 2.24" 1700 PPI Real-RGB G-OLED display. This is the highest density such display that TCL has shown to date, improving on its previous 1,512 PPI AMOLED display showed in 2025.

The 1700 PPI 120Hz display (2.24" 2600x2784) is deposited on a glass substrate. Targeting XR applications, TCL's high-resolution AMOLEDs should offer a lower-cost solution compared to OLED microdisplays.

Tianma shows its latest OLED and microLED displays at Displayweek 2026

Ron Mertens — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:00:00 +0300

Tianma is showing its latest OLED display prototypes at SID Displayweek 2026. First up we have a 6.58" AMOLED that adopts Tianma's latest U11 OLED stack, which utilizes a a PSF emitter system (likely green, but Tianma did not specify) and also a new fluorescence emitter system which Tianma calls NFT (New Fluorescent Technology) based on New Fluorescent Blue (NFB).

Tianma says that the new NFT device structure improves exciton utilization efficiency, and utilizing these new technologies, the U11 reduces overall power consumption by approximately 12% compared to Tianma's previous stack, while doubling lifespan. The optimized RGB spectrum and light-extraction design also enable an ultra-low blue-light ratio while maintaining high efficiency.

India approves a $336 million microLED display fab project

Ron Mertens — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:00:00 +0300

A couple of months ago we posted an article, discussing India's goal of becoming a global display producer, speculating on whether the country will bet on LCD, OLED or microLED technology.

Today we hear that the country has approved its first display project, Crystal Matrix's $336 million miniLED/microLED project.

OLED equipment and chemical makers enter the perovskite era - why are industry specialists pivoting to solar?

Ron Mertens — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:00:00 +0300

Recently, we have started to witness a new trend in the display manufacturing equipment industry - companies that supply deposition systems to OLED fabs are now actively developing, testing, and commercializing equipment for perovskite solar cell production. The same is true for OLED material makers.

In this article we introduce the perovskite industry and market, discuss the perovskites production process, talk about OLED process companies and material developers active with perovskites, and give advice to industry players.

Several companies, including Sunic System, Jusung Engineering, and Suzhou Precision Systems (SPS) have already finalized their R&D, and secured perovskite equipment contracts. This is not coincidental. The technological DNA of OLED deposition — vacuum chambers, large-area thin-film coating, precision moisture control, encapsulation — maps almost perfectly onto the manufacturing requirements of perovskite devices. At the same time that interest in perovskites is at an all time high, the OLED equipment market is entering a plateau phase and future investments are uncertain. For equipment makers, the timing could not be more deliberate.

Samsung Display shows new display prototypes at SID Displayweek 2026, including its first PSF OLED panel

Ron Mertens — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:53:17 +0300

Samsung Display is showing its latest OLED displays, prototypes and technologies at SID Displayweek 2026.

First up we have Samsung's new Flex Chroma Pixel technology, that combines a PSF OLED emitter platform (this is the first time that Samsung Display shows a PSF OLED prototype), with a polarizer-free OLED architecture (Samsung LEAD) to enable high brightness and a wide color gamut: the new display achieves up to 3,000 nits brightness in HBM mode, while supporting the BT.2020-96 color space.

LG Display shows a wide range of new OLED displays and technologies at SID Displayweek 2026

Ron Mertens — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:00:00 +0300

LG Display is showcasing a wide range of OLED displays and prototypes at SID Displayweek 2026. In this article we detail the most interesting demonstrations and technologies.

First up, is LG's 3rd-Gen Tandem OLED, these are AMOLED displays, aimed towards the automotive market. LG says that it has introduced two new technologies into its tandem stack - a deep-blue dopant and optimized hole and electron movement. It isn't clear exactly what LG refers to, but it does say that these new technologies enable tandem OLEDs with improved power consumption (18%), brightness (1,200 nits), lifetime (over 15,000 hours) and color purity and reproduction.

Universal Display reports lower results for Q1 2026

Ron Mertens — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:14:29 +0300

Universal Display Corporation reported its financial results for Q1 2026, with revenues of $142 million, 14% lower than Q1 2025 - and also lower than analyst anticipation. Net income was $36 million, down from $64 million - and UDC generated $109 in operating cash flow.

UDC ended the quarter with $911 million in cash and equivalents, and beyond its quarterly dividend, it authorized a $400 million share repurchase program (it fully utilized its previos $100 million buyback).

Samsung Display reports its financial results for Q1 2026, with a decline in its small/medium OLED business and stable QD-OLED sales

Ron Mertens — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:58:33 +0300

Samsung Display reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2026, with revenue of $4.5 billion, and a profit of $280 million.

Samsung reported a decline in its small/medium display business, saying this is due to seasonal effects and the impact of higher memory prices. Samsung's large-area display business maintained stable sales on robust demand for OLED gaming monitors.

Reinventing RGB OLEDoS: How Si2OLED Unlocks Power Efficiency, Brightness, color gamut, and Scalabilty [or: resolution]

Ron Mertens — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:00:10 +0300

Ths is a guest post by Ajit Krishnan, Director, New Business Development, Office of the CTO, Applied Materials, Max McDaniel, VP/CMO Display Business Unit, Applied Materials, Gunther Haas, CTO MICROOLED, and Thierry Bissuel, CEO MICROOLED.

The pursuit of the ideal AR/VR microdisplay has become one of the most complex engineering challenges in our industry, with massive investments and the trajectory of spatial computing at stake. At its core lies a deceptively simple problem: how to produce red, green, and blue light from pixels 50 times smaller than a strand of human hair—without compromising efficiency, color accuracy, or the ability to manufacture at scale for mass adoption.

While many in the industry continue to wrestle with this challenge, evidence suggests that Si2OLED technology provides a compelling solution. To appreciate the significance of this approach, it is important to examine the prevailing methods in the market—and understand where they fall short.

Today’s leading commercial OLEDoS microdisplays largely rely on a white OLED combined with color filters (W-OLED + CF). In this setup, a white light source illuminates all pixels, and filters selectively pass red, green, or blue light to form images. This is the same architecture used in displays from companies like Sony, including those found in devices such as Apple Vision Pro. While functional, this design suffers from a fundamental limitation: color filters inherently waste light. Only about 25% of the emitted light contributes to the final image, while the rest is absorbed. This inefficiency forces higher driving currents to achieve acceptable brightness, increasing power consumption, accelerating material degradation, and ultimately reducing device lifespan. In addition, in order to reach the required brightness levels, WOLED+CF architectures require the use of stacked, so-called tandem OLED devices which require a high operating voltage of around 12V which puts severe constraints on the CMOS backplane technology.

Reports suggest Apple is set to cancel its Vision Pro headset product line

Ron Mertens — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:59:35 +0300

Two years after Apple started shipping its Vision Pro headset, there are reports that the company has decided to cancel the product line, and it will not continue to develop the next version. The development team has been disbanded, and Apple will focus now on its future AR AI headset.

Apple released the Vision Pro back in February 2024, and while the device was highly praised for its next-gen technologies and design, its high price ($3,500), heavy weight - and lack of real need, meant that consumer demand was low. In October 2025 Apple released a new edition with an improved chipset, but this did not create any real demand either.

Introducing OLED-Info AI, a new AI-powered assistant built specifically for the OLED industry!

Ron Mertens — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:48:27 +0300

We’re excited to introduce OLED-Info AI — a new AI-powered assistant built specifically for the OLED industry, based on our comprehensive OLED industry knowledge and data.

Available exclusively to OLED-Info Pro subscribers, OLED-Info AI gives you instant access to the full depth of OLED-Info’s trusted data and insights. The system is trained on our complete knowledge base, including industry and market spreadsheets, the OLED-Info Toolbox guides, insights and presentations, and over 240 such as datasheets, brochures, and technical materials.

Instead of searching through documents, you can now simply ask questions — and get fast, precise, and contextual answers drawn directly from our curated content.

Whether you’re analyzing market trends, comparing technologies, researching materials, or exploring supply chain data, OLED-Info AI helps you find what you need, and can provide much better answers compared to standard AI chat bots like ChatGPT or Claude. If you have used these bots before, you may have noticed that they give incomplete, and sometimes wrong industry information. We have launched our new AI service to improve on these services as it is based on our large data and information, collected for over 20 years.

Japan Display confirms it is looking into construcing display fabs in the US, but no decision has been made yet

Ron Mertens — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:50:52 +0300

Last month we reported that Japan Display (JDI) is considering constructing a display fab in the US, with support form the Japanese government - as part of a the 2025 US-Japan trade agreement.

JDI now officially confirmed that the company is considering launching JDI-operated advanced display manufacturing fabs (plural!) in the US. The company says that no decision has yet been made regarding these production lines, though.

Researcher design a high-performance asymmetric MR-TADF deep-blue OLED emitter

Ron Mertens — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:34:58 +0300

Researchers from Tsinghua University and Taiyuan University of Technology developed a novel asymmetric MR-TADF deep-blue OLED emitter structure design, that offers high efficiency and narrow-band emission.

The new emitter offers a peak emission of 461 nm (deep-blue), a small full-width-at-half-maximum of ∼25 nm, a CIEy coordinate of ∼0.08, a high horizontal dipole ratio of ∼90 % - and an EQE of 41.5% (for a non-sensitized device), without any external light extraction techniques.

KDIA: Korean OLED market share has risen 1.5% in 2025, for the first time since 2015

Ron Mertens — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:08:34 +0300

The Korean Display Industry Association (KDIA) is quoting Omdia, saying that the OLED market share of Korean OLED panels (made by LGD and SDC) have increased 1.5% in 2025, to reach 68.7%. This is the first time since 2015 that Korea's OLED market share has increased.

The KDIA lists several reasons as to why Korean companies managed to expand their OLED market share last year:

BOE resumes production of iPhone 17 AMOLEDs after it regained approval from Apple

Ron Mertens — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:44:19 +0300

In early 2026 it was reported that BOE has been suffering from disruptions at its B11 AMOLED production line, which is where BOE produces smartphone AMOLED displays for Apple's iPhones. The production line started having quality issues at some of the processes, and BOE halted production already in November 2025. Apple had to increase its orders from Samsung Display.

According to the latest report from China, BOE finally managed to over come these issues, and has restarted production for Apple a couple of weeks ago, as the US company verified and approved BOE's latest AMOLEDs.