OLED history

2010

January - Samsung's IceTouch is the world's first product with a transparent OLED
January - Sony want to make flexible OLEDs "as soon as possibe"
January - Lumiotec starts selling OLED Lighting panel samples
January - AUO to make small to medium sized OLEDs in 2011
February - Samsung announces the Super-AMOLED displays with integrated touch
February - Pioneer and Mitsubishi to co-develop and sale OLED lighting panels
February - Sony stops producing and marketing the XEL-1 OLED TV in Japan
February - LG's 15" OLED TV will be released in Europe in May for 1,999 euro
March - Novaled is working on OLED Lighting for a european car, expects it to enter the market by 2012
March - Microsoft expects most WP7 devices to use AMOLED displays
April - Samsung and LG commit to large OLED production investments
April - Ledon, Panasonic, Kaneka and Neoview-Kolon all unveil new OLED lighting prototypes
April - Dell and Nokia launch new AMOLED phones
May - Sony shows a 4.1" rollable paper-thin AMOLED display
May - Samsung committed $2.2 billion for new Gen 5.5 AMOLED plant
May - Samsung's AMOLED business is profitable, can't meet demand
May - Blackbody, Philips and WAC Lighting reveal OLED lamps
May - Dupont says they can print a 50" AMOLED in 2 minutes
June - China's first AMOLED pilot production line is ready
June - Samsung started constuction of their $2.2 billion 5.5-Gen AMOLED plant
June - MBraun says recent orders suggest customers are ready to launch OLED TVs in 2011
June - Visionox AMOLED pilot production line is complete

2009

January - several new phones announced with large AMOLEDs from Sony, Toshiba and Samsung.
January - Novaled secures 11.2M$ in funding
January - the OQO Model 02+ is the first PC with an OLED (5")
January - LG says they can begin to produce their 15" AMOLEDs within 6 months if they get customers.
January - CES 2009 gives us 15" OLEDs from LG, 4" flexible display from UDC, a 3" Sony Walkman, transparent OLEDs by Samsung and more.
February - lot's of new OLED gadgets announcements from Samsung Omnia HD (3.7" OLED), W7900/i7410 projector phone, M7600 Beat DJ phone and the TL320 digital camera (3"). Nokia announced the N86 (2.6") phone.
February - Samsung sees OLED TVs in 2009 and Flexible OLEDs by 2010.
March - LG to direct investment to OLEDs
March - Modistech to release OLED lighting products by 2011
March - PNNL scientists develop efficient blue OLEDs
March - Samsung says no OLED TV soon, but going to put AMOLEDs in half of their new touch-screen mobiles
March - Toshiba bought our Panasonic's stake in TMDisplay, will focus on OLEDs. Panasonic still have plans for OLED TVs together with Toshiba within 2 years.
April - LG says OLEDs to be adoped widely. Will have OLED products soon, OLED TVs by end of 2009, will cost twice as LCDs.
April - Philips have started to ship OLED samples, (which you can order online now!), remain committed for 2010 commercial launch. They see tunable color and transparent OLEDs within 3-5 years. See some great photos (more here) and videos (more here) of their OLED lamps.
April - Sony shows 21" OLED prototype. Might release 2nd generation OLED TV at IFA 2009 (september).
May - Dupont's new Green OLED materials has over a million hours lifetime
May - Panasonic teams up with Sumitomo for 40" or larger OLED TVs
May - Seiko Epson announces new inkjet technology to enable large size HD OLED TVs
May - Samsung's Ultra Touch S8300 is selling great, 500K units in first month
May - Samsung: OLED production to quadruple this year, considering next-gen production line
May - Microsoft unveils the Zune HD with a 3.3" touch AMOLED
June - Samsung shipping new 800x480 AMOLED panels, and announces new phones with these panels (Omnia 2, Louvre B7610, Haptic)
June - Samsung claim that their 14.1" and 31" OLED TV panels are ready for production
June - Samsung claims over 2M pre-orders for the JET phone, and 1.8M for the Ultra Touch
June - Samsung joins OLED lighting race
June - LG Displays has a customer that will ship 15" OLED TVs in Korea in December 2009
July - LG Display to increase capacity, in talks with Nokia to supply OLED panels
August - Sony delay their next-gen OLED TV to 2010
August - LG shows their new 15" OLED TV panels
August - Samsung say they shipped over 2M AMOLED panels in July
September - Samsung promises an OLED laptop by Q3 2010
September - Microsoft's Zune HD started shipping, and was sold-out within days
October - Mitsubishi unveils very-large modular OLED displays
October - LG will build a new 5G plant, to begin mass-production in 2H 2011
October - Samsung have achieved 90% yield in their AMOLED plant, and are working 24 hours a day to meet demand
October - AUO shows new 14" OLED panels, which are "Ready for production"
November - LG Chem joins the OLED Lighting race, plans products for 2H 2010
November - Konica Minolta to build a large-scale OLED Lighting plant by march 2014, hopes for a $1 billion business
November - OSRAM starts to sell their first OLED Lighting product, the ORBEUS
November - The LG 15" OLED TV is now available in Korea for 2580$
November - Kyocera stops their OLED program
December - LG buys Kodak's OLED unit
December - Google to release the Nexus One phone with a 3.7" touch OLED
December - OLED shipments rise sharply to over $250 million in Q3 2009
December - CMO and TPO acquired by Innolux
December - Doosan to develop and commercialize OLED Lighting

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