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According to Reuters, Sony are planning to be the first to bring OLED TVs to the Market later this year.
At a display forum in Tokyo, customers, suppliers, and even rival TV makers turned their backs on 50-inch and bigger TVs to throng before Sony’s tiny 11-inch OLED TVs. According to DigiTimes, Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) will commercialize OLED (organic light-emitting diode) panels before the end of fiscal year 2008, according to the company. According to a new report by NanoMarkets, the market for OLEDs used in displays and lighting applications is expected to reach $10.9 billion ($US) by 2012 and grow to $15.5 billion by the year 2014. The report discusses the use of OLEDs for mobile devices, flexible/rollable displays, and lighting applications. The Cambridge Evening News is reporting that Amazon, the world’s biggest bookseller, is in talks with Cambridge company, Plastic Logic, about the end of books as we know them. [...] DisplaySearch has updated its 2006 OLED Technology Report, a comprehensive examination of the fledgling OLED industry, which reached revenues of $491M in 2005, up 8% Y/Y, and unit shipments of 55.8M, up 72%. Updates are due to a number of recent changes affecting the OLED industry: * Liquidation of SK Display 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 [...] NanoMarkets predictions for the OLED and e-paper, smart packaging, and thin-film photovoltaics industries: Markets for OLED and Paper-Like Displays to Total $10.2 Billion by 2011: combined sales of OLED displays and paper-like displays will reach $10.2 billion by 2011 and then go on to reach $14.7 billion by 2013. The New York times has an article (free registration required) on newspapers going electronic. The Belgian newspaper “De Tijd” is currently running a trial (Mobile Read article) with the iRex iLiad Reader. [via Engadget]
This article at IDTechEx talks about the decline of the traditional printing industry, and new markets in the field of printed electronics. Are the ink makers, machinery suppliers and others variously specialising in flexo, litho, ink jet, screen, gravure and other technologies looking like the steam engine experts of one hundred years ago? The answer is [...] According to a report by Displaybank Overall OLED shipments reached more than 61 million units for the year 2005, and revenues hit almost US$600 million, according to Displaybank (CEO Kwon Sang-Sei), a market research firm. The clear leaders in 2005 were Taiwan (27 million units) and Korea (22 million units), followed by Japan (8 million units). BusinessWeek has a story on electronic ink applications, such as Hitachi’s electronic paper advertisement displays, updated via wireless connection. But the fact is, paper hasn’t gone away. The spread of the Internet and the rise of the PC [...] NE Asia Online on the 2006 OLED Technology Report by DisplaySearch Revenues of OLED industry is expected to total over US$500M in 2005, up 18% Y/Y, according to the 2006 OLED Technology Report from DisplaySearch. OLED display makers are in transition from passive matrix to active matrix centricity, not unlike LCDs in the early to mid [...] First announced on May 24, 2005 Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) and Sumitomo Chemical have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding which will lead to the formation of a new joint venture company to develop and supply advanced polymer OLED (P-OLED) materials and formulated inks for use in commercial P-OLED display and lighting applications. According to IDTechEx projections, organic electronics will be a $30 billion business by 2015 mainly due to logic/memory, displays and lighting. The report [...] indicates that this could rise to $250 billion by 2025, with major sales from logic/memory; OLED displays for electronic products; OLED billboard and signage; non-emissive organic displays; as well as lighting, batteries [...] |
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