2017 is soon over - and this has been a great year for the OLED industry. Apple finally released an OLED iPhone, AMOLED sales are increasing, several companies (including BOE and LGD) started producing flexible mobile OLED displays with more expected to join soon, OLED TVs are gaining in popularity and LGD started production at its 5-Gen OLED lighting fab.
Here are the top 10 stories posted on OLED-Info in 2017, ranked by popularity (i.e. how many people read the story):
- LG aims to adopt a blue TADF emitter in its 2018 OLED TV stack (Jul 6)
- Updates on LG's 2017 OLED TV lineup release dates and prices (Feb 24)
- Dell brings back its UP3017Q 30" 4K OLED monitor and slashes the price by $1,500 (Apr 13)
- Samsung rumored to acquire Micro-LED developer PlayNitride (Apr 30)
- LG officially unveils its 2017 OLED TV lineup, including the OLEDW7 Wallpaper Signature TV (Jan 5)
- Amazon reveals the price of some of LG's 2017 OLED TVs (Feb 17)
- Digitimes: Chinese OLED makers to more than double their OLED capacity each year between 2016-2020 (Feb 5)
- LG's wallpaper OLEDs also coming to its commercial OLED signage range (Jan 1)
- LGD still struggles with very low yields at its E5 flexible OLED line, will not start mass production for at least 6 months (Aug 30)
- You can pre-order LG's 65" OLEDW7 Wallpaper OLED TV for $7,999 at BestBuy.com (Jan 8)
You can see that OLED TVs are dominating our top stories list in 2017. Interestingly, Apple's OLED iPhone did not make it to our list, but it was obviously a very important moment for the entire industry.
2017 was indeed an excellent year for the OLED industry and it seems like the future will be bright indeed. Here's for a good 2018!
