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- January - LG and Samsung unveil 55" OLED TVs to be released in 2012
- January - Samsung plans to invest $6.1 billion in OLED capacity expansion in 2012
- January - Dupont build a $30 million OLED TV pilot production line
- January - MicroOLED announces the world's highest density OLED microdisplay
- February - AUO and Idemitsu Kosan to collaborate on OLED display technologies
- February - Corning and Samsung form a new JV to produce Lotus OLED glass
- February - LG Chem starts producing 45 lm/W OLED lighting panels
- February - Konica Minolta developed a printed-electronics inkjet head, samples soon
- Febraury - Samsung spins-off LCD division, will focus on OLED displays
- March - Taiwan forms an AMOLED alliance
- March - Novaled files for IPO, to raise $200 million
- March - Sumitomo enters the PLED lighting market
- April - AUO's Lextar shows their first OLED lighting panels
- April - Philips announces the first 'Functional Lighting' OLED panel, 115 lm
- April - Fraunhofer's transparent Tabola OLED lighting panels now shipping
- April - AUO accelerates OLED production plans
- April - OLED-Info releases the OLED Handbook, 2012 edition
- May - Samsung launhces the Galaxy S3 with a 4.8" 1280x720 Super AMOLED HD display
- May - Samsung and LG officialy launch their 55" OLED TVs
- May - LG Display employees suspected of OLED technology theft from Samsung
- June - Sony and Panasonic to co-develop technology to manufacture OLED TV panels
- June - Corning unveils thin, flexible glass, suitable for flexible OLEDs
- June - AUO still has technical issues, delays AMOLED production to Q3 2012
- June - Samsung announced they produced over 200 million OLED panels since 2007
- June - Sharp shows IGZO based OLED prototypes
- July - Samsung Display starts conducting businesses, merges SMD and S-LCD
- July - Korean project led by LG to make flexible and transparent 60" UHD OLED panels by 2017
- July - UDC buys Fujifilm's OLED patents for $105 million
- July - Samsung developed a 350 ppi OLED display using FMM
- July - LG launches an OLED TV ad campaign
- August - LG plans to start mass producing flexible OLED panels by the end of 2013
- September - Samsung sues LG over OLED technology, LG countersues
- November - Japan Display unveil their first OLED prototype, a 4.5-inch 326PPI WRGB panel, production planned for 2014
- November - Colnatec's new OLED deposition sensor to dramatically change the economics of OLED manufacturing
- December - OSRAM report advances with transparent OLED panels, production planned for 2014
2011
- January - Samsung sold over 10 million Super-AMOLED Galaxy S phones in 2010
- January - Samsung to invest $4.8 billion on OLEDs in 2011
- January - Samsung announces Super AMOLED plus displays
- January - Sony announces the PSP2 - NGP with a 5" touch OLED display
- February - LG started AMOLED production in their new Gen-4.5 line
- February - Sony annoucnes professional 17" and 25" OLED monitors
- February - Verbatim's color-tunable OLED lighting panels now available
- February - Kaneka announces OLED lighting panels, to ship in March
- February - Samsung announces the Galaxy S2 with a 4.3" Super AMOLED Plus display
- February - OSRAM extends the Orbeos family with two new OLED panels
- March - LG's Gen-8 fab to produce white-OLED with color-filters TVs
- March - Applied Materials announces a new 7"-12" AMOLED production system
- March - Chimei Innolux shows two new AMOLED panels (3.2", 3.5"), not in production yet
- March - Universal Display raises over $250 million
- March - Panasonic and Idemitsu Kosan to collaborate on OLED lighting, opens new JV
- April - Samsung's Galaxy S II starts shipping with a 4.3" Super AMOLED Plus, Samsung sells a million units in the first month in Korea alone
- April - Philips unveils the most efficient OLED lighting panels, the Lumiblade Plus (45lm/W)
- May - Philips invests €40 million ($57 million) to expand their OLED lighting panel production capacity
- May - IGNIS shows a 3.5" AMOLED on a-Si substrate, RiTDisplays starts mass production
- May - Mitsubishi and Pioneer developed a white OLED using coating method with 52 lm/W efficiency
- May - Samsung starts producing AMOLEDs in their new 5.5-Gen fab, two months ahead of schedule
- May - OLED-Info launches The OLED Handbook
- June - Mitsubishi installed a 6-meter Diamond Vision OLED globe to create world's largest OLED display
- June - LG Display starts supplying AMOLED panels to Nokia
- June - OSRAM developed a 87 lm/W white OLED panel, close to production
- June - RiTDisplay starts to mass produce AMOLED displays on a-Si backplanes
- July - LG Display to stop investing in small OLEDs, focuses on large OLED panels and wants to introduce a 55" OLED TV in 2012
- July - Samsung Galaxy S II becomes their fastest selling mobile phones, sells 5 million units in 85 days
- August - LG Display announces Ultra AMOLED displays
- August - UDC and Samsung sign a long-term licensing agreement, Samsung to use green PHOLEDs
- August - Sony announces OLED microdisplays and five products that use them
- August - OSRAM's new OLED lighting pilot production line is now on line
- August - Panasonic announces OLED lighting roadmap, starts selling OLED panels
- September - Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi to integrate small/medium display business, invest in OLED R&D
- September - Samsung launches the 7.7" Super AMOLED tablet and the 5.3" HD Super AMOLED phone
- September - Panasonic developed the world's most efficient white OLED at 128 lm/W
- October - Konica Minolta starts shipping efficient OLED lighting samples
- October - AUO to start AMOLED mass production in 2012, already shipping samples, shows a 32" Oxide-TFT OLED TV prototype
- October - Samsung Electronics to launch flexible OLED based products in 2012
- November - DuPont licenses OLED nozzle-printing tech to a leading OLED maker
- November - OSRAM developed the world's most efficient flexible white OLED
- December - Panasonic is building an 8.5-Gen OLED TV pilot production plant
- December - Wintek starts to construct its AMOLED fab, scheduled for 2014
- December - LG Display announces their 55" OLED TV prototype, to be unveiled at CES
2010