Perhaps. I'm wasn't "expecting" anything per se, just hoping, but in any case in the B2B startups I was involved with years ago, we lived and died by releasing positive progress information. It was critical in attracting additional investors, as well as giving the existing contract customers a warm fuzzy feeling. So I figured it might be the same dynamic here, but either way, I'm asking if anyone knows anything.
When your in the mode of needing to attract additional investment, customers, and industrial partners, absolutely. But once you have a tiger by the tail and your success rides on execution and keeping an important lead customer happy (and making them successful), going stealth-mode is very common.
So here's some wild speculation regarding Samsung, WOLED and Kateeva:
As Samsung explored using Kateeva technology for their RGB OLEDs, they discovered similar industrialization issues for patterning the required RGB tiles in a cost-effective and high-yield manner. But they realized that it was a much more cost-effective way to deposit layers of OLED materials than the deposition technology being used by LG.
Hence the decision to abandon RGB OLED and leapfrog LG with a lower-cost manufacturing technique for WOLED.
My point is, just because Samsung has seemingly abandoned RGB OLED TV does not necessarily mean that Kateeva is no longer part of the equation.
In fact, if Kateeva were no longer part of the equation, I suspect we'd be hearing much more from them, (for exactly the reasons you outlined) than if they were still engaged with Samsung on something important to their future...