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Samsung Electronics announced its financial results for Q2 2026, with $120 billion USD in revenues - a company's record - up 28% from the previous quarter, and an operating profit of $62.5 billion, also a record for Samsung. These excellent results were mainly driven by high demand for its foundry, device and memory businesses.

Samsung Display posted revenues of $5.2 billion, and an operating profit of $488 million, an improvement over the last quarter, based on solid demand for high-end mobile AMOLED panels. It's large-area QD-OLED business also reported expanded sales, as shipments to the gaming monitor market grew. 

Universal Display Corporation reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2026, with $152 million in revenues (down from $172 million in Q2 2025), and a net income of $49 million (down from $67 million in Q2 2025). At the end of the quarter, UDC had $855 million in cash and equivalents, after its quarterly dividend - and about $48 million in share repurchases during the quarter.

UDC expects full year revenues to be in the lower-end of its guidance ($630 to $670 million).

According to reports from Korea, LG Display developed a new WOLED display architecture, based on only two stacked layers. LG says that these panels will be cheaper to produce, but still maintaining high image quality, comparable to its 3-stack WOLEDs.

LGD says that the new panels achieve comparable performance under both 6,500-kelvin and 10,000-kelvin color temperature conditions. The new architecture offers a wider color gamut than the existing three-stack design while reducing panel operating voltage by more than 4 volts. LG hopes that the lower cost and very high performance will enable it to expand its WOLED market share in monitors, targeting more-affordable monitor segments.

Audi launched its largest flagship SUV, the Q9, its largest ever that offers "an unrivaled sense of space; premium materials, and technical excellence". Audi highlights several innovations, including individual electric seats in the second row, automatic doors, adaptive driving assistant plus with hands-free driving, and the largest panoramic sunroof ever fitted to an Audi. 

But the first on Audi's highlights list, is the OLED taillights. Audi is using a new OLED system, that it refers to as third-generation digital OLED rear lights. These new ultra-thin-glass based flexible OLEDs are curved in three dimensions. Audi says that this not only opens up new design possibilities but also increases visibility, as the light can be seen from a wider angle. The Q9 uses a total of 512 different OLED segments (panels), across six modules.

This is the second article in our OLED display backplane series. In the first article, we introduced display backplanes and discussed the PMOLED display architecture. Here, we examine amorphous silicon and its limitations.

If one backplane technology made the flat-panel era possible, it is amorphous silicon. a-Si TFTs are deposited by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) at low temperature, in a process that is mature, inexpensive and extraordinarily uniform across very large sheets of glass. That is why a-Si scales effortlessly to the biggest substrates in the industry, up to 10.5-Gen, and why it has been used (and still is) in TVs and monitors for decades.

The main weakness of a-Si is its low electron mobility: at roughly 0.5 to 1 cm²/V·s, a-Si is about a hundred times slower than the polysilicon (LTPS) we meet in the next article. For an LCD, that turns out not to matter much. For an OLED, it is one of two reasons the technology never made it to mass production.

Back in December 2025 Samsung launched its first tri-folding AMOLED phone, the Galaxy Z TriFold. A few months ago we reported that Samsung has has decided to discontinue it and will stop producing more devices. It was claimed that the company never intended for this product to be mass produced, it was always meant to be a limited edition device. 

Now, we hear that Samsung Electronics decided to launch a new tri-folding OLED phones in 2027. As a general strategy, Samsung's mobile phone unit decided to increase the number of flagship smartphones in 2027 - to have 4 foldable options, and also four models in its Galaxy S27 series (S26, S26+, S26 Ultra - and a new S26 Pro device). Samsung believes that offering many devices will help expand its sales.