OLED-Info: the OLED experts

Samsung Electronics unveiled a new technology that enhances the durability and reduces the crease in foldable OLED panels. The Flex Titanium technology integrates two titanium-based components, a titanium-alloy film and a titanium plate. 

According to Samsung, these two components working together to balance slimness, flexibility and strength within the foldable display structure.

A few days ago we reported that TCL CSOT is launching commercial production of inkjet printed OLED panels at the company's 5.5-Gen line, and today two companies formally announced the first products to utilize these panels. This is an exciting moment for the OLED industry - we already had commercial inkjet production by JOLED years ago, but the company did not manage to reach full-scale production. Hopefully TCL CSOT with its T8 large-scale 8.6-Gen line will fare much better.

The first product is the premium MSI Pro Max OLED 271UPJW12, based on a 27" 4K (164 PPI) 120Hz and Real RGB Stripe side-by-side subpixel structure. The monitor integrates MSI's OLED Auto Care Compensation Technology, to mitigate burn-in.

Tianma Microelectronics released its interim financial results for the first half of 2026, reporting a net loss of around $105-$110 million USD (before non-recurring items that expand the loss to $133 million).

Tianma says that the rising memory prices which caused a decline in the smartphone market is the main reason for its increased losses. The flexible AMOLED market, according to Tianma, was particularly impacted by the weak demand in the Chinese smartphone market. 

Omdia says that it large-area OLED shipments will grow 18.8% in 2026, to reach 38.8 million units, thanks to high demand for OLED monitors and laptop displays.

In general the large-area display market (LCD + OLED) will shrink 2.3% to 916.9 million units in 2026.

The display backplane is the grid of thin-film transistors (TFTs) sitting behind the pixels, switching and feeding each one. It is one of the major constraint on what an OLED display can do, and is also the component that actually consumes (or wastes, really) most of the energy, more than the OLED emitters themselves.

This article is the first in a new seven-part series that will offer a practical guide to the backplane technologies of today, and of the future. Across the parts we explain how each one works, how it is manufactured, which products use it, and where its roadmap is heading. The journey runs from the simplest displays of all to the most advanced backplane in development today:

• Part 1: Introduction to the series, and PMOLED (the backplane-free OLED).
• Part 2: a-Si: the backplane that built the LCD industry but could never power OLEDs.
• Part 3: LTPS: the laser-crystallized silicon that finally drove OLED.
• Part 4: Oxide TFT (IGZO): the scalable, low-power newcomer.
• Part 5: LTPO: the flagship hybrid TFT that enables VRR
• Part 6: HMO: high-mobility oxide, the future industry backplane?
• Part 7: Organic TFTs and silicon CMOS microdisplay backplanes

In 2021, Nintendo launched its first OLED gaming console, the Nintendo Switch OLED. This was a big success for Nintendo, that shipped over 20 million units by 2024. In 2025, Nintendo launched the Switch 2, that has an 7.9" 1920x1080 120 Hz LCD display (produced by Sharp).

In 2024, we reported that Nintendo will likely go for the same playbook as with the original Switch - to enjoy 2 upgrade cycles with the same device generation by utilizing a better screen (i.e. an OLED) in a second version.