TCL CSoT has 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 a new report from Korea updates the latest status from the company.
TCL CSoT originally said it will produce OLED TV panels, but later updated its plans to produce IT displays. According to the Elec, the company has decided that its first panel to be produced is a 21.6" monitor displays for medical devices. The company has unveiled this panel in SID 2024 - it has a 4K resolution and a peak brightness of 350 nits.
The Elec further says that CSoT's capacity will be low at first, and it will be produced on the company's 5.5-Gen line that uses equipment it acquired from JOLED when the company liquidated. CSoT will expand its lineup in 2025 with more panel options, and it still hasn't decided whether to go ahead with a larger 8.5-Gen inkjet production line (its $6.8 billion T8 project, announced in 2020).
It is interesting to hear that CSoT targets medical monitors. This is a standard target application for low volume OLED production. JOLED itself, in 2017, started shipping what seems to be the same panel - a 21.6" 4K printed OLED - targeting medical applications. Sony used to offer 25" AMOLED displays for medical monitors - already in 2012.
