OLED-Info: the OLED experts

In 2025, Pictiva Displays sued Samsung Electronics in the Texas Federal Court, saying that the Korean company infringes two of its US patents (US8,314,547 and US11,828,425), relating to OLED displays. Later in the year, the court found Samsung Electronics to be guilty, and ordered it to pay $191.4 million in damages. 

In January 2026, Samsung Electronics succeeded in convincing a US patent tribunal to cancel a claim of Pictiva's US11,828,425 patent, and reduce the reduced by $92.6 million, and Samsung will have to pay "only" $98.8 million to Pictiva Displays. Later in May 2026, Pictiva Displays sued Samsung again, this time for patents related to TV technology, said to be around QD-OLED patents. 

In August 2026 Genesis introduced its flagship GV90 EV SUV, based on its new eMP platform. The car includes several new and innovative technologies, including a 24.6" "Cinematic Display" pop-up OLED display. The GV90 also sports two 13.2" 1920x1080 OLED displays on the back of the front seats.

Back in August, Samsung Display officially announced that it is supplying both OLED displays to Genesis. 

According to UBI Research, in the third quarter of 2026, BOE shipped 13 million smartphone OLED panels to Apple, for the iPhone 14, 15, 16 and 17 series. BOE's B11 factory, which is mostly dedicated to Apple's products, has been operating lately at high capacity. We already heard a couple of months ago that Apple has increased its smartphone OLED orders from BOE, Samsung and LG.

UBI also says that BOE has been in talks with Apple regarding an OLED supply deal for the iPhone 18 - and the company is already producing samples and verifying its panels for Apple's supply chain. 

Omdia says that the global OLED monitor market will reach 6.1 million units in 2026, up 79% from last year. Omdia estimates that the market will grow 40% in 2027 and reach 7.5 million units. The price of OLED monitor panels is falling - for example the price of 27" 240Hz OLED gaming monitors have dropped by more than 40% in 2026, and this is of course increasing demand from consumers.

Looking at monitor brands, ASUS is the market leader, with a 23% market share, followed by MSI, Samsung, TPV, LG Electronics, Dell, Acer and Lenovo. The market share of MSI (14%) and TPV (12%) is expected to increase significantly in 2026. 

In 2025, we reported on an interesting OLED burn-in test performed by a YouTuber called Monitors Unboxed, on an MSI MPG 321URX QD-OLED monitor. Back in December 2025, after 21 month, or over 5000 hours of use, the QD-OLED panel was starting to show an overall brightness degradation for the first time - but only 2%, and slight burn-in artifacts.

The Youtuber now posted another update, after 30 months or 8,000 hours of use. This time the QD-OLED panel was showing noticeable burn-in effects, with lower brightness, uneven diode wear, and burn-in artifacts visible during everyday use. 

Researchers from KAIST, together with researchers from Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, have developed transparent OLED glasses that can be used for brain stimulations. The researchers have looked into utilizing such glasses to induce gamma waves using light that blinks at specific frequencies - as a non-invasive brain stimulation technology.

The basic idea is that as the glasses are transparent, they can be worn during normal daily activity - while the OLEDs stimulate the brain. The researchers used glasses that have high light transmittance (75%) to achieve that goal. 

Jaguar just announced its new car (first one in over 5 years), the Type 01 EV. This all-electric luxury four-door grand tourer offer three motors, over 1,000 horsepower and a maximum range of 720 Km. 

The main driver display is a large single-glass 24" OLED display (could be made from several tiled panels, it is not clear). There's also a vertical 7-inch screen between the driver and the front passenger, but Jaguar did not detail whether it's an OLED or an LCD.