New OLED gadget: Asus Zenfone 11 Ultra

The Asus Zenfone 11 Ultra flagship smartphone offers a 6.78" 144Hz 2500 nits 1080x2400 LTPO AMOLED, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, up to 16GB or RAM and 512 GB of storage and a triple camera setup.

The Zenfone 11 Ultra will ship in mid April 2024, starting at around $900.

Read the full story Posted: Mar 15,2024

Inuru inaugerates its inkjet printing OLED lighting production line in Wildau

Germany-based OLED lighting developer Inuru inaugurated its new OLED lighting panel production line, the "Dragon Factory", in Wildau near Berlin, Germany. This is an important milestone for Inuru, which is focusing on medication packaging and entertainment applications. The production line is now ready, but it will probably take some time to ramp-up and achieve full-scale production.

Inuru produces its OLED lighting panels using an inkjet printing process, which it says educes production costs by around 90% compared to conventional (evaporation-based) processes. 

Read the full story Posted: Mar 15,2024

New OLED gadget: vivo IQOO Z9

vivo's IQOO Z9 midrange smartphone offers a 6.67" 1800 nits 120Hz 1080x2400 AMOLED display, a Mediatek Dimensity 7200 chipset, a 50 MP Sony IMX882 camera, up to 8 GB of RAM, up to 256 GB of storage, and a microSDXC card slot.

The IZOO Z9 is now shipping starting at around $240

Read the full story Posted: Mar 13,2024

Kopin progresses with its OLED microdisplay projects with its new European foundry partner

Kopin Corporation announced that it has a achieved two important milestones in its OLED projects. First, Kopin is in the process of establishing an OLED deposition partner in a "strong NATO-member European country" through a transition effort that is scheduled to be production ready in 2024. Kopin did not disclose its new foundry partner, but it is likely to be France's MicroOLED.

Kopin Lightning 2K OLED microdisplay

The second achievement is that this same deposition partner has completed initial life testing and has achieved near-zero degradation in brightness performance after operating displays at brightness levels exceeding 20,000 nits for several thousand hours. In addition, the initial displays using Kopin proprietary backplane have been fabricated and are entering into performance validation testing.

Read the full story Posted: Mar 13,2024

New OLED gadget: Samsung Galaxy M15

Samsung's Galaxy M15 is an entry-level smartphone that offers a 6.5" 90Hz 1080x2340 Super AMOLED display, a Mediatek Dimensity 6100+ chipset, up to 8 GB of storage, up to 256 GB of storage and a microSDXC card slot.

The M15 will ship later in March 2024.

Read the full story Posted: Mar 13,2024

Samsung Display: the OLED microdisplay market is set to boom in 3-4 years

In 2022, Samsung Display confirmed it is developing OLED microdisplays, and the company has since stepped up its efforts to bring OLED microdisplay to the market. SDC's CEO said that the OLED microdisplay market will 'mature' in 3-4 years, meaning that it is likely that demand for such solutions will drastically increase, and the technology and production will be able to meet this demand.

Samsung Display OLED microdisplay roadmap slide (2022-08)

Samsung itself plans to ensure that it does not fall behind in the race to develop next-gen OLED microdisplays, and will invest and deploy manpower to become a leading supplier. Samsung's $218 million acquisition of US-based eMagin is part of the company's strategy.

Read the full story Posted: Mar 12,2024