In February, the company recommenced operations and since then has seen some orders rebound due to the limited number of suppliers in the Taiwan OLED industry, according to the company. However, in order to lower operation costs, Univision has reduced its workforce to 190 employees, compared to the level of 600 it had in the past, noted the company.

Univision plans to increase PC-related and car-use OLED shipments and to boost revenues from these two segments such that they account for one third of its annual sales in 2007, projected the company. Handsets and MP3 players are now also major applications, it added.

Read more here (Digitimes) 

Toshiba announced that they will release a 30" OLED TV in 2009. These will be larger than TMDisplay's announced prototype (21") earlier this week. Toshiba's President and CEO Atsutoshi Nishida said "To prepare both the high-end and commodity models, we are currently developing panels made from polymer (organic EL) materials as well as low molecular weight materials". Toshiba expects TMD to manufacture the panels that will be applied for its organic EL TV.

Visitors to the OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Booth #215 at the CEDIA Electronic Lifestyles® EXPO in Las Vegas, April 20-21, will be able to not only imagine, but actually experience what a home of the future could be like with several installations of its latest OLED products.

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors will debut several new Pictiva™ OLED products at the CEDIA Electronic Lifestyles EXPO including: The Calgary 2.7-inch 128x64 dot display, the Miami 5-inch 384x128 dot display, and the Zurich 6.5-inch 256x32 dot display.

Cambridge Display Technology has announced that it has been awarded another grant by the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). This grant will part fund a project which will be important in the field of low-cost organic electronic devices, and especially in the development of low-cost flexible displays. The total value of project is around $500k.

The project will aim to develop commercially viable computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation techniques to model the drying behavior of organic semiconductors. Until now, the production of working display prototypes has required the use of empirical data which is both expensive and slow to obtain. Using the new models, the development cycle time should be significantly reduced.

Universal Display Corporation and Nippon Steel Chemical today announced a new PHOLED emitter material from Universal Display, called UDC-RD39, and the exciting collaborative results of combining this new emitter material with NSCC's commercial NS11 host material.

When combined with NS11, this new bright-red PHOLED emitter, with CIE coordinates of (0.65, 0.35), exhibits a luminous efficiency of 24 candelas per Ampere (cd/A), corresponding to a 19% external quantum efficiency, at 1000 candelas per square meter (cd/m2). Under accelerated testing conditions, this new red emitter demonstrates an operating lifetime of approximately 220,000 hours, at an initial luminance of 1000 cd/m2. These dramatic performance gains represent a 60% increase in luminous efficiency and five-fold increase in lifetime, as compared to Universal Display's first-generation commercial red PHOLED emitter. As a result, Universal Display's second-generation emitter in combination with NSCC's host material may be well suited to meet the performance requirements for TV and other demanding product applications.

Sony says they will start selling 11" OLED TVs soon - in 2007. Sony would begin by mass producing about 1,000 of the 11-inch OLED sets per month, and would aim to keep the TVs priced at within a few times of existing flat TVs. 

The new 11-inch OLED TV to be launched this year will be made by ST Liquid Crystal Display - a joint venture between Sony and Toyota, Sony spokesman Daiichi Yamafuji said, declining to give unit targets or a likely price. 

After showing the 21" OLED prototype, TMDisplay (Toshiba Matsushita JV) has announced their plans to make OLED TVs within 3 years (2009).

It's now possible to get the Samsung YP-K3 MP3 player on amazon. The display is a 1.8" PMOLED display.

The price is about 160$ for the 4GB version.

Toshiba Matsushita shows a 21" (20.8", actually) OLED TV. The resolution is 1280x768 (WXGA).

TM also says they are making 3.5" OLED panels for some time.

Read more here (Gizmodo)