According to DisplaySearch, tablets makers are expected to increase OLED display adoptions due to their thin profile and low power consumption, and AMOLED tablet shipments will reach 42 million by 2019, up from about 4 million OLED tablets sold in 2014. In 2015 OLED technology is expected to hold a 5% in the AMOLED display market.

Currently the only AMOLED tablets on the market are Samsung's Galaxy Tab S series, launched in June 2014 (8.4" and 10.5"). Both Super AMOLED displays offer the same resolution - WQXGA (2560x1600), which means 359 PPI for the 8.4" tablet and 287 for the 10.5" one. DisplayMate says these OLED displays are the best tablet displays ever tested.

OLED Microdisplay maker eMagin announced that it is developing a new VR head mounted display (HMD) that use the company's latest high resolution (2K by 2K) OLED microdisplays and patented optics. These two technologies will enable eMagin's HMD to be significantly smaller, lighter and higher in resolution than competing HMDs (such as the Oculus Rift one) that are based on cellphone-sized OLEDs.

eMagin seems to be very excited by the new HMD, which they currently term Immersive HMD, or IHMD (the company will conduct a contest to name the IHMD for the product launch) - saying that their non-traditional approach will achieve a "radically improved and unique form factor".

EverDisplay Optronics (EDO) was established in October 2012 with an aim to become China's first AMOLED producer. I'm happy to announce that the company has now began to mass produce AMOLED panels. EDO is currently producing 5" 720p (293 PPI) panels for mobile phones. They already achieved a design win with a Chinese handset maker and the first mobile phone that use their panels is expected to launch by the end of 2014.

EverdDisplay is also developing 5.6" Full-HD panels, and these will enter mass production in February 2015. EDO's next display will be a 1.63" 320x320 AMOLED for wearables - expected for Q2 2015.

Deposition equipment maker SolMateS developed a patented 'soft-landing' method ITO deposition, specially tailored for OLED panels. The soft-landing technique is based on SolMateS's pulsed laser deposition (PLD) process, and it enables a fully-functional ITO layer directly on the organic materials, at room temperature.

The company reports that they managed to deposit an ITO on a transparent OLED that features a transparency of 80% with similar functional specifications compared to standard OLEDs (with non-transparent Aluminum electrode).

Ason Technology was established in 2006 in Japan to develop OLED lighting technologies. In November 2013 Ason unveiled their first OLED lighting panel, and today we're bringing new details on the company's technology and business.

Ason spent almost eight years to develop a new multi-stack structure. Compared to the multi-photo-emission (MPE) structure developed by IMES, Ason's stack enables many layers (MPE allows up to 2 or 3 max). Stacking several layers allows the OLED panels to feature a high brightness without compromising the lifetime. In addition to the so-called Ason-Stack, the company also uses a unique diffuse reflector. Ason says that their technology will allow them to produce relatively affordable and efficient high-brightness OLEDs, which will also feature a longer lifetime and larger size compared to traditional OLED as well as no-angle dependency.

During a trade show in Korea, Samsung SDI unveiled a new rollable battery prototype, aimed towards wearable devices. Samsung says that this is the world's first rollable battery, and they expect to mass produce such batteries within the "next few years" as they still need to improve production yields and battery stability.

LG Chem is already producing curved batteries (these are used in LG's curved G Flex phone for example), and in October 2013 LG showed their bendable "cable" batteries which seem to be similar to Samsung's rollable ones. LG also said it will take some years to commercialize this technology.

ASUS announced that its AMOLED ZenWatch will launch in the US tomorrow (November 9th) for $199 via Best Buy. The Android Wear smartwatch will also be available through Google Play later on.

The ZenWatch features a 1.63" 320x320 AMOLED display, a 1.2 Ghz CPU, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, heart rate sensor and a battery that should last over a day. According to my information, the AMOLED is made by AU Optronics - and this will be the first commercial product to use an AMOLED by AUO in years.

According to a tip sent to Phone Arena, samsung developed a 5.9" UHD (746 PPI) Super AMOLED display, and will begin producing it by next August - to be adopted by the next Galaxy Note 5 phone. If true, this display will have a much higher density then the Note 4 (455 PPI) and the GS5 (432 PPI).

While this is just a tip, in January 2014 SDC already said it is planning a UHD smartphone OLED panel (back then they said that they aim to achieve 860 PPI).

Universal display posted disappointing financial results for Q3 2014. Revenues were $32.9 million (unchanged from Q3 2013) and net income was $4.3 million. UDC lowered their guidance for 2014 ($183-185 million, down from $190-205 million).

The lower sales were attributed to Samsung's soft mobile phone sales and lower green host sales. UDC reports that Samsung adopted a different green host supplier in some of their panels. The company is working on new high-performance low-cost host materials, but they always said that this is a competitive market.

LG Display posted an interesting article explaining their plastic-based flexible OLED technologies and displays - showing how these displays are better than LCD displays in several aspects (mainly the fact that plastic OLEDs are thinner than LCDs and glass-based OLEDs). In addition, LG Display posted their flexible OLED roadmap:

As you can see, LG already produces flexible OLEDs for phones and wearable devices. In 2015-2016 the company sees flexible OLEDs being adopted in tablets and bendable phones. From 2017, LGD sees flexible OLEDs being used to produce foldable and rollable devices.