More rumours that next year , Samsung is jumping back in the OLED game. Time will tell, I certainly hope so, the more manufacturers , the more options and it will drive prices down and be more competitive.
"Today SDC confirms that it will proceed with projects for the development of large-sized OLED displays, although the company's focus remains on small-sized OLEDs."
Sounds like an OLED TV development, at best. The only one claiming that Samsung will launch a new OLED TV by 2017 is Merck.
Good luck with that (possibly by 2018 if they announce investments in a manufacturing line before mid-2016).
It's also relatively cheap - the real dollars get involved when commitment to a volume production line get made (which is why those financial commitments need to be disclosed to the financial communinity even before construction has begun.
Someone could circle back to see the timing of LG's first disclosure about the investments they planned to make in M2. The first products (finally!) rolled off of M2 about a year ago, so that should give a reasonable swag of the timing to expect before first disclosure of manufacturing investments and first product hitting the market...
"Samsung Display is expected to make a final decision regarding investments in large-size OLED panel production equipment for 2016 before the end of the first quarter, according to industry sources quoted in a new report from Korea-based ETNews."
If a production investment decision is made this March, it will probably be announced for launch 18 months later (like LG did) but will end up dragging into 2018...
Here is the quote from the conference call. I am fairly positive that they are not referring to OLED televisions but rather other applications like transparent displays ("more applications").
If Samsung does commit to OLED televisions, it will be a big story and not a passing comment in a conference call.
"Our focus is small-sized OLEDs for smartphones. But we will proceed with projects for the development of large-sized OLED displays for more applications. We are also on the way to develop devices with flexible OLED displays; but the exact timing for such products will be dependent upon talks with our clients," the company said.
You're all assuming Samsung will be making their own panels. It's possible several companies in China have already begun the process of making OLED panels. It's not like Chinese companies are big on disclosure.
Early reports (rumored and otherwise) are that all the upcoming OLED laptops/tablets and the Dell 4K OLED monitor are Samsung, so wonder no more! Hopefully we get to buy them soon...
What do we know about the factory where the old Samsung OLEDs were produced? If that could be reused for initial production while a new one is being built, 2017 is definitely possible.
Apple use OLED on their watch and they don't make a big deal about it since they don't have it on their iPhone. I suspect they'll not make a big deal about it when they move the iPhone to OLED, knowing Samsung will have had it forever. If someone asks Tim Cook about it, he may say OLED is finally good enough for the iPhone, and that's about it.
Samsung will only jump back into oled tv's when they solve manufacturing issues and have competitive pricing. The days of $10,000 55" oled tv's is long gone. Unless they swallow their pride and buy LG panels.
I bet they will bring OLED to iPhone at the same time as wider color gamut or HDR so they have something to spin as their own invention.
And Apple going OLED means LCD will be left to only the low end devices in a few years. Thanks to their hype we no longer suffer from TN screens in phones and tablets - instead almost everyone uses IPS. The same goes for dpi. Apple is ridiculous but they can push the world forward thanks to their marketing and hype.
Indeed...you've got to hold your nose to their hubris at times. One wonders where Blu-ray might be today if Jobby had embraced it instead of maligned it as a "bag of hurt" (not that he was totally wrong, Java...).
I looked it up thanks to your clarification. In a computing environment with sufficient specs, it's much easier to accommodate processor intensive routines and tasks. Java was a problem for many early Blu-ray players, however, leading to disc incompatibility and slow loading times (not to mention early obsolescence thanks to later revisions like BD-Live). In the first several years, short of a PS3, the experience was less than stellar.
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