HKC, established in 2001 in Shenzhen, China, is an LCD producer that has three LCD production sites in Chongqing, Chuzhou and Mianyang. The company is one of the world's largest LCD makers, with an estimated market share of around 10% from the global TV panel market, and around 6.5% of the global display industry as a whole.
HKC aims to become an AMOLED producer. In 2023, it started a collaboration with JDI to build an eLEAP AMOLED production line in China. These plans were canceled though towards the end of 2023. The company continued to develop its AMOLED technologies, and in early 2025 it acquired Royole's AMOLED production line equipment.
In July 2025 HKC produced its first AMOLED display sample - a smartphone type panel, produced on an advanced Oxide-TFT (IGZO) backplane.
In addition to display panel production, HKC also produces display products, and is producing OLED monitors, based on QD-OLED panels produced by SDC - such as the GS27QK gaming monitor.
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Shenzhen-based HKC is moving forward with its AMOLED project, and the company said that a few days ago, on November 13, it has received its first OLED panel orders. The company said that its OLED panels has officially passed customer testing and verification.
This first order is for HKC's smartphone AMOLED panels that the company showed in July 2025. These OLEDs are produced on an advanced Oxide-TFT (IGZO) backplane, likely on Royole's old production line, see more below. HKC says that the performance of its IGZO smartphone AMOLED displays matches the industry's leading products.
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Beyond being good news for LG Display (Apple's other main wearable OLED panel supplier), this is a sad ending to JDI's OLED fab. The company been considering moving the production equipment to its Ishikawa LCD line but has apparently decided instead to try and sell the OLED production equipment.
