
LGOLED Lighting is one of the four major R&D technologies for LG03/11/2010
Back in January, LG announced that they will spend most R&D money on consumer electronics, wireless communication and next-gen displays (OLEDs, 3D panels and e-paper displays). Via KoreaHerald LG to license OLED Lighting technology to TechnoCorp03/11/2010Technocorp Energy (formed by ex-Kodak employees) will license Kodak's OLED Lighting technology from LG. Technocorp plan is to produce efficient OLED panels (70lm/W) at $64/m². This will take time and a lot of effort of course, and the company is looking for funding, partners and joint-ventures to achieve this goal. OLEDNet published their OLED market forecast for 2010-201603/04/2010OLEDNet has published an OLED market forecast for 2010-2016. Basically the say that during 2010, Samsung will introduce 5" and 7" AMOLEDs, and LG Display will produce 2.7" AMOLED for digital cameras, 3.5" WVGA for mobile phones and 4.3" OLEDs for portable TVS. Toshiba Mobile Displays (TMD) will begin AMOLED small panel production during 2010 as well. Toshiba, Matsushita and Hitachi are all expected to introduce 20"-40" OLED TV panels as early as 2011. AUO will begin mass production in 2011, too. Via OLEDNet LG to release their 15" OLED TV in Europe in May for 1999 euro02/28/2010LG Electronics announced today that they will release their EL9500 15" OLED TV in May in Europe. It will cost 1999 euro ($2700) - similar to the cost in Korea. The 15" panel has 1366x768 resolution and is only 1.7mm thick. Via LGE Austria Ex-Kodak employees has formed a new OLED Lighting company called TechnoCorp Energy02/11/2010
A group of In the company's web site, they do not actually mention OLEDs, but rather say they will work on a 'select set of renewable energy projects and working these projects in tandem'. Kodak's OLED unit was sold for $100 million02/03/2010Back in December, LG announced it will buy Kodak's OLED unit. The price was not revealed, but now Kodak has released their quarterly report, in which they reveal that the price was $100 million. Kodak also entered into a licensing transaction with LG which gave them $414 million in revenue. via cintelliq OLED TVs will have to find new ways to compete with LCDs02/01/2010Tech-On has posted an interesting article about OLED TV status. They discuss the situation of the technology, why is it so difficult to make a large OLED panel, and how are the various TV makers trying to solve the issues. I think the two most interesting points are:
Here's the link to Tech-On's article. |
|