Futaba Corporation is a Japanese company that produces Vacuum Fluorescent Displays (VFDs) and other industrial and commercial components and modules. In October 2011 Futaba bought TDK's part in their PMOLED joint venture, TDK Micro Device Corporation, which is now a Futaba subsidiary.
Futaba develops and manufactures small PMOLED displays for consumer applications including flexible PMOLEDs. In 2022, the company signed a strategic agreement with RiTDisplay, that will produce PMOLED displays for Futaba, who is now likely not producing any displays in-house anymore.
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Futaba expands its strategic relationship with RiTDisplay for the production of PMOLED displays
Japan-based PMOLED maker Futaba announced that it is entering a business partnership agreement with Taiwan-based PMOLED maker RiTDisplay for the production of OLED displays.
Futaba is already collaborating with RiTDisplay for parts of the PMOLED production process, but now it will expand this project and move the entire PMOLED production process to RiT Display. The two companies will also partner to share technical details and co-develop and market automotive PMOLED displays.
Futaba's flexible 1.4" 128x16 PMOLED display now available on the OLED Marketplace
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Futaba's flexible 1.8" 160x32 PMOLED display now available on the OLED Marketplace
Futaba demonstrated its automotive, flexible and transparent PMOLEDs at SID 2018
Futaba to start producing transparent segmented OLEDs next month
Futaba shows its flexible and automotive OLEDs at SID 2016
Futaba expands film-type flexible PMOLED range
DisplaySearch: LG Display dominates the smartwatch display market
DisplaySearch estimates the worldwide smartwatch display market at $204 million in Q1 2015. The leading provider was LG Display - with over 90% of the market ($186 million). Other leading players are SDC (3.1%), Japan Display (2.4%) and Futaba (2.4%).
LG Display's lead is not surprising - the company is providing the flexible plastic-based OLED displays used in Apple's watch - and reportedly produced over 6 million panels for Apple, at $20 each. LG is also providing panels for LG Electronic's smart watches (including the G Watch R and the Watch Urbane). In Q4 2014, by the way, LGD only produced 1.1 million displays - impressive growth in just one quarter, attributed mostly to the Apple supply deal.
