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BOE to supply AMOLEDs for Apple's iPhones

A new report from China suggests that BOE finally managed to enter Apple's supply chain for its iPhone devices. Only last month it was reported that BOE did not pass Apple's OLED quality test.

According to the report BOE will start supplying AMOLED displays to Apple before the end of 2020. In 2021, BOE will ship 10 million AMOLED displays to Apple. LGD will supply 40 million panels while Samsung will supply 130 million panels.

Visionox OLED updates

China-based OLED maker Visionox announced that it lighted up its 6-Gen flexible OLED production line in Hefei, Anhui, China. The company held a ceremony on December 7th.

Visionox's new production line (its second 6-Gen line) will have a monthly capacity of 30,000 1500x1850 mm substrates, similar to the company's first line in Hebei. Total investment in the new production line will be $6.3 billion.

Visionox recently announced that demand for its AMOLED displays is on the rise, while demand for LCD displays (which Visionox does not produce) is down in China.

According to reports, Visionox also started production at its M4 flexible OLED module line in Guangzhou.

OLED market updates

Here are the latest market estimates and forecast updates from OLED market analysts:

• DSCC sees OLED revenues reaching $31.9 in 2020, Q4 will be an all-time-high
• UBI sees lower demand for OLED smartphone panels, and price cuts from LGD and SDC
• DSCC sees the foldable OLED display market growing to 94 million units by 2025
• Tianma sets an aggressive goal for 2021 - shipment of 40 million AMOLED panels
• DSCC details the OLED smartwatch panel market in 2020
• Perovskite-Info publishes the Perovskites for the Display Industry Market Report

The Perovskites for the Display Industry Market Report

OLED-Info is proud to present our new market report, The Perovskites for the Display Industry Market Report. This market report, brought to you by the world's leading perovskite and OLED industry experts, is a comprehensive guide to next-generation perovskite-based solutions for the display industry that enable efficient, low cost and high-quality display devices.

Reading this report, you'll learn all about:

• Perovskite materials and their properties
• Perovskite applications in the display industry
• Perovskite QDs for color conversion
• Prominent perovskite display related research activities

The report also provides a list of perovskite display companies, datasheets and brochures of pQD film solutions, an introduction to perovskite materials and processes, an introduction to emerging display technologies and more.

The best of 2020 - top OLED stories

2020 is soon over - and many in the world are really happy about that and hope that 2021 will bring the COVID-19 pandemic to an end. The OLED industry has been remarkably resilient to the pandemic, and shipments grew and developments continues.

Here are the top 10 stories posted on OLED-Info in 2020, ranked by popularity (i.e. how many people read the story):

1. Kateeve announces massive layoffs (Feb 13)
2. Introducing The MicroLED Handbook (Jan 16)
3. LG announces its 2020 OLED TV lineup - with new 48-inch and rollable models (Jan 7)
4. Correcting OLED & MicroLED display quality to improve production efficiency & yields (Jan 28)
5. Can a transparent OLED TV show a black color? (Aug 23)
6. A Q&A with Cynora's CEO, to discuss the company's new blue emitter (Mar 5)
7. Will HiSense retire its OLED TV line in favor of dual-panel ULED-XD tech? (Jan 16)
8. LG Display to begin mass production by end of January 2020 (Jan 16)
9. Samsung starts to ship QD-OLED TV samples, may produce QD-OLED monitors (Aug 25)
10. Samsung Display to stop all LCD production by the end of 2020 (Apr 1)

According to ETNews, Apple reached out to both LG Display and Samsung Display for these OLEDs, which will adopt a new OLED design.

LG Electronics announced that it is partnering with door solutions developer Assa Abloy Entrance Systems to commercialize automatic sliding doors with transparent OLED panels.

Samsung announced a First Look 2021 event that will take place on January 6th 2021, during which the company will introduce its latest products, technologies and visions for the future of the display.

Idemitsu Kosan announced that it has achieved full-scale production of OLED materials at its new factory in Chengdu. Material shipments from the new fab will commence in January 2021.

Notion Systems, MBraun and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research (Fraunhofer IAP) are co-developing new inkjet production technologies, aimed for the display market - specifically for OLED, QD and microdisplays

The review is quite dismal - about the quality of the camera and the display area above it

Aixtron (The parent company of APEVA) announced that it received the final acceptance for its OVPD system from its customer, a large display maker.

A new report from Korea suggests that Samsung Electronics has halted its own UTG project as it realized it should better increase the efficiency of its current supply chain

An android smartphone with a 6.43-inch 1080x2400 90Hz AMOLED display

An AR glasses device with dual 0.453-inch 1920x1200 OLED microdisplays

A smartwatch with a 1.39-inch 454x454 Super AMOLED display

The nova 8 5G sports a 6.57-inch 1080x2340 (90Hz (6.72-inch, 1263x2676 120Hz on the nova 8 Pro 5G) AMOLED display

An FX-Format mirrorless camera with an OLED EVF