China-based Yeolight is making excellent inroads into the local automotive market in China. Several new car models launched lately, using the company's OLED taillight solutions.
First up we have the Nissan N7, this is a China-bound EV mid-size sedan that will be produced by Nissan for the Chinese market through the Dongfeng Nissan joint venture.
Omdia estimates that shipments of OLEDs over 9-inch in size (which Omdia defines as large-area OLEDs, although most companies will refer to these sizes as medium-sized OLEDs) will increase 116.5% in 2024, and will rise a further 32.7% in 2025.
This growth is driven by increasing demand for OLED monitors, tablets and laptops.
Huawei announced several new devices yesterday, all with AMOLED displays. We'll start with the Mate X6, a foldable smartphone that offers a 7.93" 120Hz 2240x2440 foldable LTPO AMOLED display, and a 6.45" 120Hz 1080x2440 LTPO AMOLED cover display.
Second is Huawei's new Mate 70 smartphone family, with 3 models. The basic Mate 70 has a 6.7" 2500 nits 120Hz 1216x2688 LTPO AMOLED display, while the 70 Pro and 70 Pro+ both sport a larger 6.9" 1316x2832 LTPO AMOLED displays. The interesting Mate 70 RS Ultimate edition that has a 6.9" 120Hz 3,500 nits 1316x2832 tandem LTPO AMOLED.
Researchers from Durham University have used a unique molecule to create TADF emitters with better triplet harvesting, and thus extended lifetime. The fused indolocarbazole-phthalimide molecules offer rigidly planar charge-transfer and can maintain their stability and efficiency over time, even in high-stress conditions.
The researchers say that the new molecules break all our current ideas about excited states in OLED emitters and the researchers developed a new model linking molecular bonding patterns leading to the breaking of molecular pi-conjugation in the excited state.
Applied Materials announced a technology, branded as MAX OLED that enables OLED display production on large glass substrates, aiming to provide a cost-effective solution to produce TV and TV displays. Applied developed and patented a new OLED pixel architecture and a "dramatically different manufacturing approach" that the company says enables brighter, clearer, more energy-efficient and longer-lasting.
Applied's new MAX OLED systems can scale from 6-Gen substrates to 8-Gen substrates, supporting the new wave of IT OLED production lines. Applied says that its new solution has strong customer interest - and already achieved repeat orders from several leading display makers (see below). Specifically, Applied announced that it will supply an R&D system to Samsung Display that will test the new production technology for its AMOLED and QD-OLED production technologies.
DSCC says that the display industry's spend on production equipment will grow 47% in 2024, to reach $7.3 billion. The next three years (2025-2027) will see pretty much the same levels, and will not return to the high levels we've seen in 2022 and before.
2024 will see significant investment in new LC capacity, but going forward there will be very little investments on LCD production, which is not surprising. DSCC says that the major catalyst for the growth will be production lines for IT AMOLED displays.
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Kyulux announced that it has singed a capital and business alliance agreement with Nippon Soda, to establish a mass production system for TADF OLED emitter materials. Nippon Soda will take an equity stake in Kyulux and will engage in process development and capital investment toward establishing the mass production system.
This will be the world's first mass production and stable supply system for TADF materials. Kyulux aims to achieve full-scale mass production of its Hyperfluoresence emitter system by 2025, and this will be an important step forward as it will require a stable supply of TADF materials.
Samsung Display and BOE are fighting a legal battle in the US, as Samsung wishes to halt the import of BOE OLED displays (such as the ones used by Apple in the upcoming iPhone 4 SE smartphone, according to reports) saying that BOE infringes upon Samsung's patents. BOE, meanwhile, together with other OLED makers in China, answered with a motion of their own, to dismiss an SDC AMOLED patent.
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has now ruled that BOE indeed infringed upon Samsung's OLED patents. However the ITC rejected Samsung's request to ban the import of BOE's displays into the US. Samsung asked to re-examine the decision and the final verdict on issue will be given on March 2025.
TCL CSoT announced several times in the past that it plans to start producing OLED display using an inkjet printing process by the end of 2024, and yesterday it officially announced it has started mass producing printed OLED displays at its 5.5-Gen production line.
The company brands these displays as APEX OLED displays. In fact it seems as if all of TCL displays (OLEDs and LCDs both) will be branded as APEX OLEDs, with the slogan PACE to APEX.
