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China's Haier demonstrated OLED TVs at IFA 2015. We do not have any information on those TVs, beside this video which only shows them for a few seconds at the beginning:

Back in January Haier unveiled their 55" curved super-slim (1.5 mm) Full-HD 55H9800 OLED TV. it may be that this is the same TV shown now. As far as I know the H9800 is not shipping yet.

UBI research that the OLED material market reached $564 million in H1 2015. This is a 14% increase from H2 2014, but a 24% decrease from the first half of 2014.

The main reason for this, according to UBI, is that OLED production is stagnating and price of material is decreasing rapidly. The main reason for the production stagnation is Samsung Display's low utilization (which was about 50% in H1 2015) and LG's low OLED TV production volume (around 100,000 units).

AVForums published a rather long interview with Panasonic's Hollywood Labs VP of operations, Ron Martin. Ron gives some details on Panasonic's CZ950 OLED TV and explain why they believe it is superior to LG's own OLED TVs (even though, of course, Panasonic uses LGD's panels).

Panasonic announced TX-65CZ950 is the company's first commercial OLED TV. It's a curved 65" 4K OLED panel that features Panasonic's 4K Pro tech which includes advanced gradation controls and 3D color look tables. The TV supports HDR and is THX certified. Panasonic did not yet reveal the release date or price of this TV, but it will probably be more expensive than LG's own 65" 4K OLEDs.

The Faunhofer Institute FEP is going to demonstrate an OLED device that has a graphene electrode, developed as part of project GLADIATOR. The Fraunhofer developed the device in collaboration with Graphenea, which supplied the CVD-produced monolayer graphene.

This first demonstrator is a small OLED device. The partners in this project now aim to create a larger-sized OLED with an active area of 42 cm². They also plan to develop a fully-flexible transparent OLED, with an active area of 3 cm².

A few months ago Aixtron acquired US-based thin-film encapsulation (TFE) developer PlasmaSi for $16 million, and today Aixtron announced that they have sold the first Optacap-200 encapsulation tool to a major Asian display manufacturer. The R&D system was ordered in Q3 2015 and will be delivered in Q1 2016.

The OptaCap-200 is a standalone R&D system that substrate sizes of 200x200 mm. This is a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) technology that can be used to deposit highly flexible and effective barrier films for thin-film encapsulation for OLED and OPV panels.

At IFA 2015, LG Display presented a new double-sided 55" OLED prototype that is aimed towards commercial or retail applications. The whole displays is just 5.3 mm thick and weighs just 12 Kg. You can see it in the video below:

The video also shows LG's 55-inch "wallpaper" OLEDs which were first unveiled in May 2015, which is really impressive...

US-based Market Research company ElectroniCast Consultant says that the OLED lighting market is set to grow at a very fast pace (75% CAGR) in the next ten years: from $150 million in 2015 to almost $2.4 billion in 2020 and $6.7 billion in 2023.

OLED lighting revenues are expected to actually decline from 2023 to 2025 - because the average price of an OLED panel will decline faster than the growth in number of panels shipped (which will continue until 2025 at least).

Everdisplay (EDO) unveiled a 5.6" WQHD (2560x1440, 525 PPI) flexible AMOLED prototype. This impressive display is the first flexible OLED prototype by the Chinese OLED maker. EDO says that flexible OLEDs are set to become the display of choice for top-tier brands.

Everdisplay started mass producing 5" 720p AMOLED displays towards the end of 2014. Since then the company seems to be accelerating its OLED program. The company is developing larger displays (5.5", 6" and an 8" AMOLED for the automobile market), round AMOLEDs (a 1.4" 400x400 circular AMOLED for the wearable market) and also recently demonstrated a 6" 4K (734 PPI) AMOLED display.

Yesterday Apple announced their latest smartphone, the iPhone 6s (and its bigger sibling, the 6s plus). Both devices use an IPS LCD display, and also include Force Touch - and of course upgraded hardware.

Before the launch we heard some speculation that the new iPhone will adopt an OLED display - but this was actually quite unlikely, as OLED production it still dominated by Samsung, which means that there is only one supplier (which Apple will not accept for the iPhone) and even Samsung's own capacity will not be enough to satisfy Apple.