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According to a report from China, BOE Display successfully developed a 30" Full-HD AMOLED panel. We don't have any more technical details on this panel, but this development follows BOE's recent announcement of a 17" Oxide-TFT inkjet-printed AMOLED panel.

BOE Ordos 5.5-Gen AMOLED fab

The same report reiterates BOE's plans to inaugurate their 5.5-Gen LTPS fab in Ordos by the end of 2013. It is my understanding that this fab will begin production with LTPS LCDs and will later on switch to AMOLED Production. According to earlier reports, the fab cost is estimated at $3.44 billion.

SID 2013, the world's most prominent display conference will take place next month (May 19, in Vancouver, Canada) - and they now published some technical papars that will be discussed during the conference. And there's some interesting stuff in there.

First up is AU Optronics paper, describing how the company developed the world's largest OLED panel: a 65" direct-emission Oxide TFT one. This panel, that was produced using an FMM process, features a long-range threshold voltage uniformity of 0.34 V, and the dam and fill encapsulation process is simple and highly stable.

China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) is reportedly advancing in its AMOLED 4.5-Gen R&D line. The company now expects to start trial production by the end Q1 2013.

BOE Ordos AMOLED fab

The same report suggests that BOE Display is also progressing in its 5.5-Gen AMOLED line in Ordos - with hopes to start mass production in Q4 2013. This is earlier then previously estimated (2014). BOE's fab will be able to produce 54,000 monthly substrates (both LCD and AMOLED, on LTPS).

There are reports that BOE, who's facing serious AMOLED production issues (especially on large OLED TV panels) with very low yields has reached out to Taiwanese company for help. BOE is seeking to collaborate on AMOLED R&D, and if the reports are true they probably contacted either AU Optronics or Innolux or both.

BOE Ordos 5.5-Gen AMOLED fab

According to reprots, BOE started construction of their 5.5-Gen AMOLED fab in Ordos (Inner Mongolia) which will produce 54K substrates a month. According to some earlier reports, the fab cost is estimated at $3.44 billion. BOE's plan is apparently to first start with LTPS LCD and only in 2014 start producing AMOLED panels as well. BOE is also developing OLED ink-jet printing processes.

BOE Display developed a 17" Oxide-TFT AMOLED prototype that was produced in an ink-jet printing process. They say that this is the first time these an Oxide-TFT OLED panel was ink-jet printed successfully, but I'm not sure if that's actually true because I think Panasonic's printed 56" OLED TV shown at CES also sports an Oxide-TFT. Still this is a great achievement by BOE.

BOE Ordos 5.5-Gen AMOLED fab

A few months ago we reported that BOE started construction of their 5.5-Gen AMOLED fab in Ordos (Inner Mongolia) which will produce 54K substrates a month. According to earlier reports, the fab cost is estimated at $3.44 billion. BOE's plan is apparently to first start with LTPS LCD and only in 2014 start producing AMOLED panels as well. It's probable that the ink-jet based process is even further away...

Digitimes reports that BOE Display has signed a $5.26 billion investment agreement with the Chinese government to construct a new 8.5G line within the western China municipality. BOE will start construction in Q3 2013, and the new line will be complete by Q1 2015. It's monthly capacity will reach 90,000 substrates.

BOE Ordos 5.5-Gen AMOLED fab

It's not clear yet what technology is planned for this fab, but Digitimes says it's probably either UHD (4K2K) LCd panels or AMOLED panels. I personally do not think it's likely for BOE to plan such large substrates for OLED technology.

A couple of days ago we reported that China has established a new OLED industry alliance. It turns out that the alliance was actually established back in June 2011, and today we bring you some more information.

The alliance is officially called the China OLED Industry Alliance and it was formed with an aim to help grow the Chinese OLED industry. The alliance is headed by the Chinese Government and includes19 member companies, including Rainbow corporation, Irico, Visionox, Tianma, TCL, BOE Display , First-O-Lite, OLightek,Sichuan CCO, Aglaia Tech, Jilin Optical and Electronic materials and others.

A few weeks ago we reported that BOE Display started construction of their 5.5-Gen AMOLED fab in Ordos (Inner Mongolia). It seems that this is indeed true as BOE Display now details the new fab in their company profile brochure:

According to the brochure, the fab will produce 54K substrates a month, and will produce both LCD and AMOLED panels on LTPS backplanes. According to earlier reports, the fab cost is estimated at $3.44 billion. BOE's plan is apparently to first start with LTPS LCD and only in 2014 start producing AMOLED panels as well.

There are reports that the Korean police is investigating a new case of OLED technology leakage - this time by Israeli company Orbotech's local Korean branch. Six Orbotech employees are suspected of leaking AMOLED (and WRGB, or WOLED) technology from LG Display and Samsung to several Chinese and Taiwanese companies.

According to the prosecution, Orbotech's employees photographed circuit diagrams of LG's and Samsung's 55" OLED TV panels when they visited the company's factories to check defects of inspection equipment. The images were stored on portable memory cards, slipped into their shoes, belts and wallets, and later relayed to display-making rivals.

Update: Here's the complete list of OLED related posts and notes from SID 2012

So, SID 2012 is now over. Personally it was a very good show, even though I hear from many exhibitors that it was slow compared to past years. There were a lot of companies showing OLED displays, lighting panels and related products, and it seems that OLEDs are starting to become mainstream. I do plan to post in-depth posts with interesting details of my talks with various OLED companies, but in the meantime, here's my own "best of SID" list.