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AMOLED screens and element manufacturers

I    Current Status and Future Outlook of AMOLED Screens Market

• How the momentum of AMOLED screens market shall be in 2017 and later?
• The driving force is the Installation to iPhone, which boasts the largest volume in SmartPhones
• Medium-size and small displays are likely to shift as follows: Flat→Curved→Fordable→Rollable
• The technological progress shall be led by the knowledge of LCDs and potential of OLED in 2017 and later
• Despite that mid-size to small displays have leaped forward in the display technologies in the past decade; the era of "Fordable" does not arrive easily
• The bridge to "Fordable" is likely to be a "Full Active Display"
• LCD technologies that have been the basis of the best-quality medium-size and small display should not be looked down on
• The medium-size and small LCD market will not disappear so easily

II    Trends of AMOLED Screens Market

1. Entire AMOLED Screens Market

• Over 400 million AMOLED screens have been sold in 2016
• The market size is projected to expand to more than three times larger in 2020

2. AMOLED Screens Market by Use (small-to-medium size, or large size)

• AMOLED small-to-medium-size screens market has been led by the shipment for iPhones, the new application.
• With growing cases of adoptions at Japanese and other makers, OLED TVs have started showing signs for growth.
• AMOLED market has been occupied by small-to-medium-size screen types.
• AMOLED market for large-TVs has begun expanding, but overwhelming numbers of AMOLED screens are still for small-to-medium-size types.　

3. AMOLED Screens (small-to medium-size market) by Application

• Annual growth rate for SmartPhones for 2016 to 2018 achieved a little less than 140%. 
• Triggered by adoption in iPhones, other applications of OLED screens for small-to-medium-size screens are rapidly expected
• Those for SmartWatches are slowing down when looking at them from the aspect of the entire market, but replacement to OLED screens can be expected in Apple Watches and other SmartWatches.
• LGD plans to supply Plastic OLEDs for Benz E class, the first OLEDs for Benz E class.
• As the largest AMOLED maker, SDC has entered the market, the era of in-vehicle OLED maket is expected to be full-fledged. 

4. AMOLED Screens (Large Size, for TVs)

• Whether large AMOLED screens that have started being adopted at Japanese manufacturers boost OLED TV market?　
• OLED TVs have maintained their unit prices high, to the contrary of declining unit prices in LCD TVs　

5. AMOLED Screens by Film-Forming Method
6. AMOLED Screens based on Shipment Values and Sales

• The AMOLED screens market in 2017 is projected to attain USD 20 billion.

7. A list of AMOLED screen manufacturers by Production Capacity

III   Trends of Manufacturers of AMOLED Screens

1.  Shipment Trends of AMOLED screens (small-to-medium size)
2. Shipment Trends of AMOLED screens (large size)