Samsung announced plans to launch 14 new SUHD (LCDs enhanced with Quantum-Dots) TV models in 2016. Samsung says they applied a "second-generation quantum dot technology" which will update the overall picture quality, and is also Cadmium-free.

Samsung acknowledges that their 2015 SUHD TV "may have fallen behind" OLED TVs in terms of picture quality - but the new models will have "drastically" improved brightness.

ETNews says that Apple chose Samsung Display as the company's primary OLED supplier, and the two companies signed an official contract. Flexible OLED supply for Apple's next iPhone will begin in 2017.

ETNews further claims that other display makers are fighting to become Apple's second OLED supplier. There's a high chance that LG Display will be chosen, but the company has not yet been able to secure enough production capacity. Sharp/Foxconn and Japan Display are competing with LGD for Apple's OLED business.

We're proud to launch a new service - the OLED Marketplace. This new service offers what we hope is the world's most complete OLED panel catalog. The Marketplace is a free resource that allows you to find the best OLED panel for your project, and includes character, graphic, flexible and transparent OLEDs.

The OLED Marketplace includes over 120 OLED panels from over 12 producers (both PMOLED and AMOLED displays). We hope this new service will enable device makers to find the best OLED for their product - and increase OLED adoption.

LG's flagship 2016 OLED TV, the 65" Signature OLEDG6 is now shipping in the US, for $7,999. At least according to Amazon, it seems that quantities are still limited though.

LG's Signature OLED G6 is LG's top-end TV model for 2016. The G6 feature an ultra-slim on-glass design, a high-end pivoting Harman Kardon soundbar, LG's webOS 3.0, Color Prime PRO technology and HDR.

Danish high-end consumer electronics designer Bang & Olufsen announced that it is going to launch its first OLED TV in 2017, using LG Display's OLED panels. B&O announced a "strategic technology partnership" with LG to develop the new televisions.

LG's 2016 OLED TV lineup

It's great to see B&O commit to an OLED TV. LGD is already supplying OLED TV panels to Panasonic and China's Skyworth, Changhong, Haier, Konka and KTC. Philips also announced plans to release an OLED TV soon with LGD's panel.

eMagin, the OLED microdisplay maker, reported financial results for Q4 2015. Revenues were $6.7 (the same as in Q4 2014) and net loss was $2.1 million (up from a loss of $1.6 million in Q4 2014). The company currently has $9.3 million in cash and equivalents (up from $6 million at the end of 2014).

eMagin XGA096 OLED-XL

For the whole year of 2015, eMagin reports revenues of $25.1 million (down from $25.7 million in 2014). Net loss was $4.1 million (down from $5.3 million in 2014).

Looking forward, eMagin's CEO is optimistic - the company sees a growth in the US defense budget for 2016 and 2017 and it recently signed several new design wins with military customers.

In September 2015 LG Display presented new double-sided OLED display prototypes, in both curved and flat formats. LG now officially launched those products under their new commercial OLED unit.

The Dual-View Curved Tiling OLED offers slim tiles (two, three or four), each 65" in size and 4K in resolution that together create eye-catching displays. The whole system is run by a high-performance chipset and has 128GB of internal memory - so it does not need to be connected to any PC or media player.

The OLED Association posted an interesting story detailing their forecasts for the OLED market's growth between 2014 and 2018. In the bottom line, the OLED-A expects the OLED market to grow at a CAGR of 22% in that period. Capacity will grow from 1 million sqm in 2009 to 6.8 million sqm by the end of 2018.

The small/medium non-flexible OLED segment is seen as stagnating in 2016, with a relatively modest growth starting in 2017. Overall growth will be 7% CAGR in 2014-2018 as many small players will grow their capacity (but will not reach large volumes) or enter the market and it seems that SDC will not increase production by much. In 2018 nine companies will produce small-sized rigid OLEDs, led by Samsung (62%), JDI (8.8%), AUO (8.3%) and LGD (5.4%).

Back in 2012 LG Chem started discussing a Gen-5 OLED lighting fab, but that plan did not materialize. In late 2015 LG Display acquired LG Chem's OLED lighting business and the plans for the Gen-5 fab re-emerged.

Today LG Display announced that it will go ahead with the plans and invest in a Gen-5 (1000x1200 mm) OLED lighting fab that will be located in Gumi, South Korea. The initial capacity will be 15,000 monthly substrates, and LG will increase capacity depending on market reception. Mass production in the new fab is expected by the first half of 2017.

Samsung Display unveiled their 55" mirror and transparent OLED display panels back in June 2015, and the company finally announced the availability of these displays - Q2 2016. The mirror display's model number is ML55E while the transparent display's model number is TO55E.

Samsung also reveals that the displays features a brightness of 150 nit, 45% transmittance (75% reflectance in the case of the mirror display) and a color gamut of up to 100% Adobe RGB.