The OLED-Info newsletter (July 23, 2022)

Today we are happy and proud to announce a new MicroLED Industry Association, created to help accelerate the adoption of microLED display technologies.

The new association will bring together companies, academia and organizations active in the MicroLED industry and provide an ideal forum for solving common technology issues, fostering cooperation and sharing relevant information, resources and tools. The association will also work to promote its member companies, their technologies and products.

You can read more about the MicroLED Industry Association, including the complete list of member benefits, here: https://www.microledassociation.com

This page is still at an early stage, and we are working on a new design which will be updated shortly.

On July 14 2004, I published the first post on OLED-Info, and so our site is now 18 years old! It is great to see how the industry matured and grew from these early days, and how OLED-Info became the world's leading OLED knowledge hub and publication.

The first post was an announcement by OSRAM of a new 80x48 monochrome PMOLED display. OSRAM since withdrew from the OLED display market, and later from the OLED lighting market as well.

TCL's CSoT demonstrated a new prototype AMOLED display - a 17" IGZO foldable panel, that was produced using inkjet printing. The company says this kind of panel can be used in tablets, monitors and laptops.

CSoT is progressing with its inkjet printing technology, and aims to start production in 2023 . Last year the company demonstrated a 65" 8K inkjet-printed OLED TV panel, in addition to a 14" rollable panel.

DSCC estimates that OLED smartphone display shipments will decrease 5% in 2022, to 592 million units. Flexible OLED shipments will rise by 2% (and will decline 10% in terms of revenues) but rigid OLED shipments will drop 14% (and revenues will decline 32%).

DSCC sees the OLED smartphone market declining 16% in 2022 to $317 billion (smartphone sales), and explains that this is due to macroeconomic headwinds, weakened consumer demand and problems with supply chains and inventories.

The Nothing Phone 1 feaetures a 6.55-inch 120Hz 1200 nits 1080x2400 AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G+ chipset, 8/12 GB of RAM, 128/256 GB of storage, a dual camera setup and Dual SIM.

The Nothing Phone One is now shipping starting at around $475.

This is a sponsored post by Coherent

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There is a variety of processes within the flexible display production line where lasers have an essential contribution to enable high throughput, high yield mass production. Nowadays, the complexity of the displays is getting larger and the number and tasks of lasers within flexible OLED production is increasing.

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