China OLED market survey 2010-2011
Chinese consulting firm CCID released its 2010-2011 survey on China's OLED industry. In 2010, Chinese companies shipped 1.35 million OLED displays, up 38.2% over last year. OLED makers in China include Visionox, Shanwei Truly, Sichuan CCO and Irico. Both Shanghai Tianme and Irico are in the process of building 4.5-Gen AMOLED fabs, planning to start mass production in 2011. BOE Display and Sichuan CCO are also engaged with AMOLED R&D.
The Chinese government continues its support for the OLED industry, including special funds from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and tax policies on new display manufacturers imported materials. But there are still several problems in China's OLED industry - key equipment still needs to be imported (from Japan, Korea and the EU) and China needs raw materials. AMOLED development faces great difficulty due to outdated equipment and inadequate management.
Visionox's AMOLED pilot production line is complete
Today we learned that Visionox's AMOLED pilot production line was completed, and is able to produce OLED displays up to 17", although Visionox will start will 3" to 12" products, and will only start 17" products later. The line was developed in cooperation with the Kunshan Industrial Technology Research Institute (K-ITRI).
Visionox AMOLED production line
Visionox has been cooperating with AU Optronics on a 2.4" AMOLED display product.
Visionox shows new OLED lighting and display prototypes
Visionox (a Chinese company) is showing new 'decorative' OLED lighting and display prototypes. There's an OLED lamp, and an OLED digital photo frame.
Visionox say they have achieved the following technology breakthroughs:
- Long lifetime (over 100,000 hours halftime at brightness of 1000 cd/m2) fluorescent white OLEDs with a composite blue emitting structure.
- Highly efficient hybrid OLEDs with an efficiency of over 40 lm/W at the brightness of 1000 cd/m2 without any light out-coupling technology.
- Flexible OLED lighting and transparent OLED lighting samples.
Visionox say that their decorative OLED-Lighting products are actually available in small volumes. They hope to enter the general lighting markets in a few years.
The lamps look very much like the TOPLESS project lamp prototypes (shown back in August).
China's First OLED Line Begins Production
Visionox to mass-produce OLEDs in their china plant by October 2008
According to Digitimes, China-based OLED maker Visionox is setting up an OLED panel plant in Kunshan, Jiangsu, and will start mass production in October 2008.
