A few days ago we posted that Taiwan's RiTDisplay, one of the world's leading PMOLED makers, is seeing strong demand for its OLED displays, expanding its production by 20% and filing for an IPO in Taiwan.

Following that story, Digitimes now posts a story on RiTDisplay, quoting its president that says that PMOLED panels are replacing STN-LCD panels in small sizes - even though PMOLEDs are more expensive (by about 50%) than LCDs.

Razer announced that it will ship the OSVR HDK2 on July 29. The basic configuration (available for pre-order now) costs $399.

The HDK2, which is based on an open-source software platform, uses a 2160x1200 low-persistence (90fps) AMOLED display.

Blue TADF developer Cynora announced that Dr. Andreas Haldi was appointed as its Chief Marketing Officer. With his strong technical and business experience, Andreas Haldi will reinforce Cynora in the forthcoming commercialization of its high performance blue OLED materials.

Cynora, preparing the commercialization of its emitting materials for OLEDs, is hiring Andreas Haldi to further enhance its already good relationships with the major display makers and to now prepare with them the implementation of its materials in their products.

DeePoon started shipping its M2 VR headset a few weeks ago. The company says the orders (since announcing the M2 in April 2016) are over 20,000 already - which makes this HMD the most successful one in China's VR headset industry.

The M2 includes an on-device computer using Samsung's Exynos 7420 chipset. The M2's display is a 2560x1440 AMOLED display made by SDC. Deepon operates what it says to be the largest VR content platform in China with over 150 VR games and 5 million users.

As flexible OLED displays are entering the market, researchers and developers around the world are aiming to introduce other flexible components - required to make truly flexible/bendable devices. We already have flexible batteries, and now researchers from Singapore demonstrated the world's first flexible MRAM memory device.

MRAM (Magnetic RAM) is a next-gen spintronics memory device that is non-volatile, efficient and fast. Future MRAM device may offer high-density memory too, but current MRAM chips are limited in capacity. Freescale spin-off Everspin is already producing 64Mbit MRAM chips commercially - and 256Mb and 1Gb chips are expected soon.

ETNews posted an interesting story, in which it is said that Chinese display makers are diverting investments away from LCD production and into flexible OLED production. ETNews lists BOE Display, CSoT, TianMa and Visionox - all bringing forward flexible OLED plans.

Flexible OLED prototype, Tianma

Tianma and Visionox, according to ETNews, already started to make actual investment and placed initial equipment orders for flexible OLED production. BOE and CSoT decided to postpone 8-gen LCD investment plans and will start investing in flexible OLEDs by the end of 2016.

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One of the best features of the OLEDs is how simple they are to make into an attractive and unique light source. No extensive knowledge on heat management or optics for safe operation is required, really just plug & play... But is it though?

What about powering up the panel, what is the most suitable driver? The information from the panel manufacturers can be confusing, either they don’t offer drivers at all, or the drivers are so specific that they can only be used for the OLEDs of that specific manufacturer. The latter can be quite frustrating in the early stages of a project when one just wants to compare the different solutions on the market to select which OLED fits best. What can easily be found in various configurations are constant current power supplies. The problem here however, is that they tend to be quite bulky and offer only one output current. That means essentially that a design must start with looking for the available standard driver configurations on the market and then fit OLED size, quantity and brightness around that not the ideal approach for a creative design. But another question also arises; Can OLEDs be operated safely with the drivers made specifically for LED as well?

IHS says that the OLED display penetration rate in mobile phones will grow from 13% in 2015 to 34% in 2021, mostly due to the adoption of OLEDs by China-based phone makers. For some reason IHS does not mention Apple - but if OLEDs start to appear in iPhone models, it will have a drastic effect on OLED penetration.

IHS says that following the success of OLEDs, the market for LED BLUs in mobile phones will start declining - at about 2.6% per year in the same period.

According to UBI Research, LG shipped 140,000 OLED TV panels in Q2 2016. The company shipped 28,000 65" OLED TVs in Q2, double from the number of 65" panels it sold in Q1 2016.

UBI says that the OLED TV market has started to gain sales momentum as more companies besides LG are adopting OLEDs in their high-end TVs. LG is focusing on 65" panels as the price gap compared to high-end 65" LCDs is lower than the price gap in 55" TVs.

Taiwan's RiTDisplay, one of the world's leading PMOLED makers, is reportedly seeing strong demand for its OLED displays. According to a new report, the company's revenue reached $31.2 million in the first half of 2016, up 40% over the first half of 2015.

The company is also enjoying higher profits - and in fact the profit in the first half of 2016 may pass the profit from the whole year 2015. PMOLED is seeing a rising demand in wearable devices - and other emerging applications.