Samsung Display Archives - 12ページ目 (12ページ中)

Samsung Display (SDC) unveiled AMOLED panels for 8” and 10” tablet PCs, which is known to be on the market by Samsung Electronics (SSE) from this July.

<Samsung Display’s 8” (left) and 10” (right) AMOLED for tablet PCs>

Their detailed specifications were not publicized but assumed to be 8.4” and 10.5” with WQXGA (2560 x 1600) resolution. It is forecasted that M6 will be used in the unveiled AMOLED panel for the tablet PC which is an upgraded luminescent material from one used in Galaxy S5. Phosphorescence red and green of DS-Hi-Metal and Cheil Industries Inc. are applied to the M6 material.

Samsung has been focusing on the tablet PC area as a major business from early this year and expects that the tablet PC will become a device experiencing unprecedentedly rapid growth in IT history as display penetration rate for the tablet PC increases fast.

Samsung already launched 7.7” Galaxy tap, which adopted 7.7” AMOLED panel in 2011.

AMOLED latecomers; BOE, AUO and Tianma are rapidly catching up the AMOLED development of Samsung Display (SDC) and LG Display (LGD) at SID 2014.

BOE expressed possibility of investing in TV following mobiles by displaying 55” FHD AMOLED panel. In terms of technology readiness level, it is incompatibly lower than panels of LGD and SDC though, it is considerably fast that it was developed in six months and produced in a pilot line in Hefei.

AUO showed that its AMOLED technology had reached at certain level by unveiling 5.7” WQHD (513ppi) ultra-high resolution AMOLED panel. More attention drew towards AUO’s panel because its production method is RGB+FMM as SDC uses and the high resolution is realized with real RGB strip type rather pentile. AUO also expressed its will on AMOLED business by showing 5” HD flexible AMOLED panel and 1.6” AMOLED panel for a smart watch.

Tianma also unveiled 5.5” HD AMOLED panel. Its performance lags behind the current AMOLED panel, but it ai ms to supply middle-end and low-end panel targeting mass-production of 5.5” FHD AMOLED through continuous R&D.

Challenges of Chinese and Taiwanese makers become serious in the AMOLED market, where Korean makers, SDC and LGD, are dominant, and the latecomers are about to invest in the sector. Thus, it is expected that the AMOLED industry will constantly grow.