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US-based microdisplay developer Kopin Corporation has received a $2.4 million OLED microdisplay order from a leading international thermal weapon sight manufacturer. Kopin says that these OLED displays will be integrated into a next‑generation thermal weapon sight program, enhancing situational awareness and operational performance for end users.

Kopin will start to deliver the displays towards the end of 2026, over a six-month period. Kopin anticipates follow‑on orders as the customer advances through additional phases of its program.

A few months ago Kopin announced that it has decided to build a full-scale OLED microdisplay production line, at the company's Westborough, Massachusetts headquarters.

According to a report from Korea, Apple is expected to increase its tablet OLED and foldable OLED panel orders from Samsung Display next year, from 10 million units in 2026 to 24 million units in 2027 - that's more than double in shipments. Samsung Display is already getting ready to increase its production capabilities for Apple.

The reports suggest that foldable OLED shipments will reach 8 million units in 2026, and 15 million units in 2027. Apple's iPad OLED shipments will grow from 2 million units in 2026 to 9 million units in 2027, that's over 4X growth in one year, as Apple is expanding the use of OLED displays across its iPad lineup.

The mood around AMOLED in 2026 has been gloomy, and with reason. Rising memory prices have squeezed handset bills of materials, the broader phone market is soft - analysts expect AMOLED smartphone shipments to decline around 7% in 2026, the first decline for AMOLEDs in many years.

Read quickly, that sounds like OLED losing ground. We wanted to check it against a different measure, so we counted new phone models announced each year since 2020 and split them by display technology - LCD against OLEDs. Not units shipped: models designed and launched. By that measure, 2026 has been another year of OLED gains.

Two measures, moving in opposite directions

OLED passed the halfway mark in new model launches in 2024 and has kept climbing since. In 2026 - through early September - it accounts for roughly 58% of new models, up from about a third in 2020. There is no stall in that curve, and certainly no reversal.

As Apple gets ready to announce the first foldable iPhone later this week, Samsung Display has already started to mass produce foldable OLED panels to Apple's first foldable iPhone, at its Asan, Korea hub, while the modules are produced in its Vietnam's module factory. According to the reports, Apple's first order is for a total of 3 million displays that will ship in 2026. Samsung is the exclusive supplier of foldable panels to Apple, and Apple actually signed a 3-year exclusivity deal with SDC.

According to the latest news from Japan, Apple is facing technical issues, mainly with the production of the hinge component of the iPhone Fold (which could be named iPhone Ultra). In fact, this component is so challenging, that Apple's suppliers can only produce a few hundreds of units per day.

The OLED industry moves fast — and keeping track of every new presentation, datasheet, and company report can be a challenge. That’s why we created the OLED Library, part of OLED-Info Pro, where you’ll find a growing collection of brochures, marketing materials, technical documents, and corporate reports from leading companies across the OLED ecosystem.

We keep adding new documents to the Library — and we have just passed a nice milestone, as the Library now holds 258 items! The latest uploads include:

• Lambda Research – three optical design software brochures (OSLO, TracePro and RayViz)
• D Solvents – material catalog
• Apoello – DiaDEM one pager
• Hummink – high-precision capillary printing brochure
• INT Tech – 150,000 nits OLED microdisplay presentation
• Holst Centre – executive report
• SFA Nexel – OLED equipment brochure
• LX Semicon – company report (2025)
• Fraunhofer IPMS – 2025/2026 report
• Light Conversion – company introduction and femtosecond laser catalog
• BLD Pharmatech – OLED materials leaflet
• Kopin – investor presentation
• HanaAMT – glass and metal processing brochure
• Screen Holdings – financial presentation

These documents — and many more — are available exclusively to OLED-Info Pro subscribers. You can also access them directly when browsing a specific company in our OLED Company Directory.

Researchers from the Institute for Materials Research (IUMAT) in Belgium have utilized a green OLED and five organic NIR photodetectors, to create a tiny monolithic upconvertor, that turns invisible NIR images into green light, while preserving the spatial information. All that, without any external power supply.

The device architecture include five organic NIR photodetectors, connected in series, and so the photovoltages build up under NIR illumination to power the integrated OLED. Low lateral charge mobility within the organic layers keeps the photogenerated signal spatially confined as it reaches the OLED, which helps preserve sharp image features that can then be recorded with a conventional or smartphone camera.