TMDisplay

TMDisplay develops 2.2" OLED with world's longest lifetime and best efficiency

oled — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:45:28 -0400

TMDisplay (JV between Matsushita and Toshiba) says it developed an OLED panel with the world's longest lifetime and best efficiency. The 2.2-inch OLED panel has a lifetime of 60,000 hours and power consumption of 100 mW.

TMDisplay has developed the new panel in cooperation with Idemitsu Kosan, a Japanese oil refiner active in OLED materials development. They say they aim to start commercial production of the advanced OLED panels by March 2009 for cellphones and other mobile devices. It has yet to decide the size of production. Previous reports say that TMDisplay will invest 140M$ on OLED production, and that they set their monthly output of 1.5M units a month (at 2.5").

Update - TMDisplay JV sets their target output at 1.5M units a month

oled — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:23:13 -0400

A week ago we reported that TMDisplay is to spend 140M$ on new production lines, setting the output at 1M units per month.

TMDisplay to spend 140M$ on production lines for 2.5" AMOLEDs

oled — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:44:38 -0400

TMDisplay, the joint venture between Toshiba (60%) and Matsushita (40%) will setup production lines for 2.5" AMOLED by fall 2009. They aim to make 1M panels a month, of the 'high-quality-panels'. The total cost for those production lines will be 140M$.

Japanese government and companies team up to develop OLED tech

oled — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:12:08 -0400

The Japanese government will team up with several Japanese companies to develop key-technologies for producing large-size OLED panels. The aim is to cut the development cost for the Japanese companies, to be better able to compete against Samsung and LG, and the Japanese government will pitch in around 32$M.

Matsushita to make 37" OLED TVs in 3 years

oled — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:49:44 -0400

There are reports that Matsushita has plans to mass produce 37" OLED TVs in 3 years. They want to be the first company to make OLED panels over 30". They also have a suggested selling price - 150,000 yen (~1400$).

Toshiba delayed their OLED TV because of power consumption being too high

oled — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:56:26 -0400

Smarthouse claims that Toshiba delayed their OLED TV because of their high power consumption. If you check Sony's XEL-1 you see that the power consumption is higher than LCD or plasma. Sony admits that it will take time for them to lower the consumption - and that's only one of the tasks before their engineers before we get a commercial large sized OLED TV.

TMDisplay develops OLED at twice the efficiency

oled — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:19:10 -0500

TMDisplay has succeeded in doubling their OLED efficiency using a metal membrance. The new design allows them to run the OLEDs at half the brightness, and thus gain twice the lifetime. TMDisplay did not disclose when they will start making OLED TVs, although the new design should not delay the TVs.

Toshiba shelves plan to sell OLED TVs in 2009/10

oled — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:38:17 -0500

According to the guardian, Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Tuesday it has shelved plans to sell ultra-thin OLED (organic light-emitting diode) TVs in 2009/10 because of the cost of mass production.

What the future holds for OLED TVs

oled — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:12:28 -0500

In november 2007 Sony has started to sell their 11" OLED TV (the XEL-1). This is an exciting move by Sony, but this cannot be considered a real commercial OLED TV. They are only producing 2,000 of those units monthly, the price is extremly high - around 1,800$ for a 11" TV (and Sony admits they are losing money on each unit). Even the power consumption of those TVs is rather high - higher than compatiable LCDs.

DisplaySearch: 3 Million OLED TV Panel Shipments in 2011, forecasts 700$ price for Sony's 11" OLED TV

oled — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:45:59 -0400

DisplaySearch of the United States forecast shipments of organic EL TV panels would reach around 3 million units in 2011 at the 13th DisplaySearch Japan Forum July 24, 2007.

The company assumed entry to the market from a number of manufacturers including Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. of Korea in 2008 and Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co. Ltd. (TMD) in 2009, following Sony Corp. launching an organic EL TV onto the market in late 2007.