The report shows shipments according to screen type, including PMOLED and AMOLED displays.
The report shows growth in PMOLED display shipments to mobile phones (reaching 0.3% in Q206).
DisplaySearch revealed in its latest Quarterly OLED Shipment and Forecast Report that OLED shipments grew to 16.1M and revenues hit $112.0M in Q2'06. Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) displays compete with LCDs in small/medium applications such as mobile phone main displays and subdisplays, MP3s and automotive consoles. OLED shipments increased 44% Q/Q due to 48% increase in subdisplays and a 36% growth in MP3 player sales. PMOLEDs continue to dominate the market with a revenue share of over 98%. There are 23 small molecule and 2 P-OLED producers with small molecule having a 97% revenue share.
LG jumped past Samsung SDI and RiTdisplay and led in units and revenue in Q2'06 with 3.6M displays and $27.5 in revenue. Samsung SDI was #2 in both shipments and revenue, and Pioneer moved up to #3. Recovering from a very poor Q1'06, Univision was #4 in revenue, up 361%, and RiTdisplay fell to #5.
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While flexible displays offer the unprecedented distinctiveness of being thin, lightweight, unbreakable, conformable and rollable, the challenges that await those taking advantage of the opportunity require patience and capital beyond the reach of many companies.
Flexible OLEDs are predicted to enter the market in 2010, and grow to about 450M$ by 2015.
DisplaySearch has updated its 2006 OLED Technology Report, a comprehensive examination of the fledgling OLED industry, which reached revenues of $491M in 2005, up 8% Y/Y, and unit shipments of 55.8M, up 72%. Updates are due to a number of recent changes affecting the OLED industry: Liquidation of SK Display, TMDisplay and Seiko Epson de-emphasizing commercialization of AMOLEDs, Pioneer closing its ELDis JV and the concurrent end of its AMOLED activity, Sharp reduction in small/medium panel ASPs due to over capacity in TFT LCDs, Continuing difficulty in using LTPS backplanes for AMOLEDs.
The OLED display makers are in transition from passive matrix to active matrix centricity, not unlike LCDs in the early to mid 1990s. The difference is that AMOLED display makers expect to ride the benefits of the existing TFT infrastructure created for LCDs. The report shows the status of material development, manufacturing (both evaporation and ink-jet printing) and the proposed solutions to high yielding a-Si and p-Si backplanes.
DisplaySearch has released the Q1'06 issue of the Quarterly Organic Semiconductor Patent Analyst Report (OSPA). This latest issue of OSPA analyses the 1,598 granted and published patents relating to organic semiconductor technologies issued during Q3'05 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), European Patent Office (EPO) and World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
In this issue of OSPA, key inventors of organic semiconductor patents for the period 2003-2005 are identified: The inventor with the most organic LED patents is S Yamazaki (Semiconductor Energy Laboratory, Japan), for organic transistors the most prolific inventors are K Hirai (Minolta, Japan) and then W Fix (PolyIC, Germany), for photovoltaics the top inventor is C Brabec (Konarka Technologies, US) and for organic memory devices it is S Pangrle (AMD, USA).
DisplaySearch and cintelliq have announced a distribution agreement whereby cintelliq will produce and DisplaySearch will market and distribute the Quarterly Organic Semiconductor Patent Analyst Report (OSPA).
The Quarterly Organic Semiconductor Patent Analyst Report is a 200+ page quarterly report that provides an overview of patents related to organic semiconductor technologies that were published or granted by the European, Japanese, US or World patent offices in the previous quarter. Each issue analyses about 1200 patents, covering areas such as LEDs, substrates, photovoltaics, transistors, memory cells, encapsulation, materials, patterning, deposition, lasers, sensors, and fabrication.
The report classifies patents to identify areas of greatest activity, as well as highlighting interesting trends in research and patenting. The report also analyses the patents by assignee, tracking the major players in the industry and spotting new entrants to the field. Patents issued to academic organizations are monitored, as are patents issued to the major OLED licensors, Kodak and CDT, and their licensees.
DisplaySearch celebrated its 10th anniversary by holding its 8th Annual US FPD Conference at the Loews Coronado Bay Resort in San Diego, California.
DisplaySearch, an NPD Group Company and the worldwide leader in display market research and consulting, has released its 2006 OLED Technology Report. The report presents a comprehensive examination of the fledgling OLED industry, which reached revenues of over $500M in 2005 up 18% Y/Y. The OLED display makers are in transition from passive matrix to active matrix centricity, not unlike LCDs in the early to mid 1990s. The difference is that AMOLED display makers expect to ride the benefits of the existing TFT infrastructure created for LCDs. Two of the major players in OLEDs, Pioneer and Kodak, have recently announced changes in their strategies, shifting their emphasis away from the production of AMOLEDs. The report will show the impact of these changes and how other display makers will shift to AMOLEDs and the impact on the applications targeted by AMOLEDs. It forecasts display units and revenue by Application, Panel Size, Panel Resolution, Material Usage, Active vs. Passive Matrix Driver Technology, Small Molecule vs. P-OLED.
DisplaySearch indicated in its latest Quarterly OLED Shipment and Forecast Report that OLED shipments grew to 16.7M and revenues hit $130.9M in Q3'05. OLED shipments increased 144% Y/Y due to 35% growth in MP3 player sales, and 93% growth in industrial displays. All of the growth is in PMOLEDs using small molecule material; AMOLED producers-Sanyo Kodak, AUO and Sony-shipped less than 50K displays in Q3/05. P-OLED material panel producers continued to struggle with less than a 3% share of total shipments.
Samsung SDI led in units and revenue in Q3'05 with slightly over 4.4M displays and $37.1M in revenue. RiTdisplay was #2 in both shipments and revenue. TDK experienced the strongest growth of the top five, with shipments up 138% Q/Q to 1.2M and revenue up 81% Q/Q to $7.6M.
DisplaySearch indicated in its latest Quarterly OLED Shipment and Forecast Report that OLED shipments grew to 14.2M and revenues hit $124.8M in Q2'05. OLED displays compete with LCDs in small/medium applications such as mobile phone main displays and subdisplays, MP3s and automotive consoles. OLED shipments increased 82% Y/Y due to 95% growth in main display sales, and 1,300% growth in MP3 player displays. All of the growth is in PMOLEDs using small molecule material; AMOLED producers--Sanyo Kodak, AUO and Sony--shipped less than 50K displays in Q2'05. PLED material panel producers dropped to two suppliers as Philips sold their facility to OTB and now represent less than 3% of the total shipments.
Samsung SDI led in units and revenue in Q2'05 with slightly over 3.8M displays shipped and $37.2M in revenue. RiTdisplay was #2 in both shipments and revenue. LGE experienced the strongest growth of the top five, with shipments up 111% Q/Q to 740K and revenue growing 92% Q/Q to $6.5M.
The Top five applications are Subdisplays, MP3, Car Audio, Main Displays and Auto Consoles.
