OLED history
2010
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
See older history (Page 2, Page 3)
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