Active matrix organic LED

Manufacturers of AMOLED Displays and Components

I   Current Status and Future Perspectives of AMOLED Displays and Major Components Market

• Who won the position of the third-party vendor for Apple?
• New market with the size as big as 300 million displays has been generated for Chinese iPhone and Apple followers
• OLED using printed electronics, and further advanced QLED
• Development speed must be accelerated in order to win over the competition with micro　LED

II   Trend and Perspectives of AMOLED Display Market

• Some strategies toward 2019-2020 should be hammered out to cope with many makers to be risen
• Rapid expansion is expected in the market of small-to-mid-size AMOLED displays
• Global market size of AMOLED displays in 2022 is likely to be more than three times larger than that of 2016
• Triggered by iPhone Ⅹ, more adoption of AMOLED displays expected in small-to-mid-size applications
• Number of AMOLED displays adopted in smartphones in 2018 is expected to be as follows: 250 million for Galaxy, 160 million for iPhone
• Number of AMOLED displays expected to be adopted in the Chinese market is 150 million
• LGD starts producing P-OLED displays for smartphones in 2017
• Chinese makers, EverDisplay, GVO, Tianma, and etc., plan to augment their production facilities to expand their production of AMOLED
• JDI, Sharp, and BOE have at last started entering the market
• With regard to large displays, good news is that the products developed by Japanese makers, such as Sony, Sharp, and Toshiba, have started being introduced, in addition to LGE
• Expansion of the market of large displays requires cost reduction and development of further larger displays　
• Triggered by iPhone Ⅹ introducing Flexible OLED displays, the shipment volume of these displays have rapidly increased in 2017
• By 2018, the shipment volume of flexible OLED displays is likely to exceed those of Rigid OLED displays
• FMM method has been established for small-to-mid-size AMOLED displays
• Shipment of AMOLED displays using printed technologies is expected to be started in 2019
• Backplanes of small-to-mid-size AMOLED displays mainly use LTPS
• Progressive development of TAOS has been made for large displays, in addition to oxide semiconductor TFT

III   Trend and Perspectives of AMOLED Display Components Market

1. Market of Element Materials for AMOLED Displays
2. Market of Base Materials for AMOLED Displays
3. Market of Encapsulant for AMOLED Displays
4. Market of Touchscreens for AMOLED Displays
5. Market of Polarizing Plates for AMOLED Displays

IV   Trend and Perspectives of Manufacturers of AMOLED Displays and Components

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