The OLED-Info newsletter (November 2, 2021)

JVC's first OLED TV, the VO9100 OLED TV, sports a 55/65" 120Hz 4K WOLED panel. Other features include HDR support, HDMI 2.1, ALLM, eARC and Dolby Atmos. The TVs are based on a Linux Smart TV platform, with support for Amazon Prime, Netflix, YouTube, Twitch and more.

The VO9100 series will launch in Europe by the end of 2021.

LG Display reported its financial results for Q3 2021. Revenues increased 7% from Q3 2020 to reach 7,223 billion KRW ($6.2 billion USD) while net income was 463 billion KRW ($396 million USD).

LGD says that it enjoyed high demand for IT panels, and its large-size OLED business continues to "strengthen its position in the market as the premium TV sector continues to grow". LGD expects to ship 8 million OLED TV panels in 2021, with record annual profit.

LG Display announced that it is once again teaming up with British top-tier design magazine Dezeen to launch the second round of the OLEDs Go! global design competition.

Scroll, last year's OLED design competition winner

LGD calls out to designers to develop new and innovative designs showcasing OLED technology in unique and practical. LGD says it is seeking innovative entries that cleverly demonstrate the creativity and potential of its OLED and transparent OLED displays – ranging from 20 to 50 inches.

The following is a sponsored post by Novaled

Novaled is a leading provider of proprietary organic materials and complementary innovative technologies for superior OLEDs in display and lighting and for high performance Organic Solar Cells (OSC). Being active in the field of organic electronics, Novaled's skill set is quite unique, combining expertise in physics, chemistry and engineering support. Headquartered in Dresden/Germany, Novaled has also some business and technical presence in Asia. In 2013, Novaled has become part of the Samsung Group.

Milestones in the history of Novaled

Novaled is a former start-up, founded in 2001 as a spin-off from the Technical University of Dresden and the Fraunhofer Institute. After a phase of extensive research and development, from 2006, our materials could be tested by display manufacturers, and successfully made their way into Samsung's mass production right from the start in 2010. Initially, Samsung was the only producer of OLEDs - organic light-emitting diodes.

Samsung Electronics reported its financial results for Q3 2021, with record quarterly sales ($63 billion USD) and an increase of 31% in net profits (to $10.5 billion).

The strong performance was mostly thanks to Samsung's chip business and the weak Korean won. Samsung's display business also enjoyed a good quarter, with strong sales of small and medium-sized OLED panels. Samsung's large-area LCD business, though, posted losses as prices of LCD panels declined.

Huawei's Watch Fit Mini is a smartwatch that features a slim 1.47-inch 368x194 AMOLED display, SPO2 sensor, heart rate monitor and a 10-days battery life.

The Watch Fit Mini will ship soon in Europe and China, priced at 99 Euro.

Xiaomi's Redmi Note 11 Pro is an Android smartphone that features a 6.67-inch 120Hz HDR10 1080x2400 AMOLED, a MediaTek 920 5G chipset, 128/256 GB of storage, 6/8 GB of RAM and a triple camera setup.

The Redmi Note 11 Pro+ features the same specification, but with a fast-charging battery (120W), which is a bit smaller in capacity.

The Note 11 Pro will start shipping in November 2021, starting at around $250.

This is a guest post by Sri Peruvemba

From large outdoor interactive screens on buildings to tiny displays in a wristwatch, the display industry has created applications and entire industries over the past 60 years, transforming our entire society. Just take a look at laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and other handheld devices, which were all possible thanks to display technology innovation.

Older TV’s took half the space in your room; now they are like a painting on the wall, and in some cases thinner than a portrait frame. Modern displays are everywhere now - from the back of the seat in an airplane and taxicab, to stadiums and other public venues, tiny kiosks that serve one person at a time, and of course, medical devices, military vehicles, and more. Display innovation can also be found in factory equipment, oil rigs, trains, trucks and boats and airplanes. Other unique display applications include displays embedded in a credit card.
Innovators in this industry are displacing shelf labels in stores, printed signs, and printed timetables at bus stops and train stations.

UBI Research estimates that Samsung Display will increase its foldable OLED panel production from ~8 million units in 2021 to 18 million panels in 2022. This will enable Samsung Electronics to increase its foldable phone shipments from around 7 million in 2021 to over 14 million in 2022.

As SDC's foldable panel capacity increases, the company will also have to increase is foldable OLED module production capacity, and the UTG glass processing capacity at Dowoo insys. subsidiary.

KDDI's AQUOS sense6 SHG05 is an Android smartphone that features a 6.1" 1080x2432 IGZO AMOLED display (produced by Sharp), a Snapdragon 690 5G chipset, 4GB of RAM, 64 GB of storage, microSDXC card and a triple camera setup.

The AQUOS sense7 SHG05 phone will ship by the end of 2021 for the Japanese Okinawa Cellular network.

OLED microdisplay maker eMagin has been developing direct-emission OLED microdisplay (also called directly-patterned, or dPd) for many years, and the company today unveiled a new WUXGA (1920x1200) dPd microdisplay prototype. The new display offers a brightness of 10,000 nits, which makes it (according to eMagin) the world’s brightest high-resolution full-color OLED microdisplay.

eMagin says that using direct patterning instead of color filters enabled it to improve the brightness 20-fold, compared to its typical XL microdisplays, and 3-4X compared to its brightest XLE microdisplays.

Sony's Xperia Pro I is a high-end smartphone with a focus on its camera. The display is a 6.5-inch 120Hz HDR 1644x3840 (643 PPI) AMOLED, and the phone has a quad camera setup, with a main 12MP 1-inch sensor OIS camera.

Other features include a Snapdragon 888 chipset, 512GB of storage and 12GB of RAM.

The Sony Xperia Pro I will ship by the end of 2021, for around $2,000.