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NE Asia is reporting on iSuppli market predictions for flexible displays.

Note that according to their prediction, flat or formed displays (not bent during use) will take the lion’s share, while

True flexibility/rollability will appear in displays with small shipments in 2008, and will become a US$59 million market in 2013 […].

Challenges for the flexible display industry are listed as:
- the OLED industry’s promised shift to flexible has still not happened
- large investments are required in manufacturing infrastructure *
- new, unknown market

* [While this is certainly true for new deposition/patterning methods (e.g. inkjet printing) the hurdle is much lower for companies using traditional lithography.]

 

 

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