OLED monitors: introduction and industry news - Page 3

LG Display announced today that its entire lineup of OLED panels for TVs and monitors have earned UL Solutions Eyesafe Verification, meeting Eyesafe® Display Requirements 3.0. LG Display says that it is the first in the industry to get this verification.

The new requirements were developed by Eyesafe, an international authority in blue light management, in collaboration with leading eye care professionals. The verification confirms that displays maintain color accuracy and reduce blue light emissions.

Samsung Display says that it aims to increase its QD-OLED monitor panel shipments to 1.43 million units in 2025, an increase of 50% over 2024. The company plans to launch new products, that it has already announced, mainly its 27" 4K panel which offers the highest pixel density (160 PPI) of all 27-inch OLED panels and its 27" 500hz QHD panel that it will start mass producing.

According to Omdia, OLED monitor panel shipments increased from only 8,300 units in 2021 to 160,000 units in 2022, 820,000 units in 2023 - that's a CAGR of 300% from 2021 to 2024. Omdia estimates that SDC holds a market share of 71.2% in the global OLED monitor panel market, with its QD-OLED panels.

Last year we reported that Visionox is looking into using its  ViP maskless OLED production process, for at least some of the panels at its upcoming $7.6 billion 8.6-Gen V5 IT AMOLED production line in Hefei. New reports now suggest that Visionox decided to adopt only the standard FMM technology for the V5 fab's first production line.

The reports suggest that the yield at Visionox's ViP maskless production process pilot line is still too low to be considered for a mass production line. The V5 production line will have a capacity of 32,000 monthly substrate, with 8,000 in the first phase. Visionox first planned for 16,000 monthly substrates in the first phase, but this was scaled down. It is hoped that as the company's ViP technology matures, it will adopt it in the next V5 line.

Samsung Display is showing several OLED technologies and panels at MWC 2025. First up we have a demonstration of Smasung's latest "bezel-less" design. Samsung is showing 6.8" AMOLED panels and two 31.5-inch QD-OLED panels, tiled together to create a sort-of-seamless design (the bezel is 0.6 mm).

Samsung Display says that it has achieved a breakthrough in bezel-less technology by utilizing advanced design techniques to significantly reduce the width of outer bezel. This innovation results in a bezel that is 40% thinner on all sides compared to the average bezel width of products currently on the market.

LG says that the OLED monitor market will surpass $1 billion in revenues in 2025, up from $793 million in 2024. In 2022, the total OLED monitor market amounted to only $75 million. LG says that about 22% of all gaming monitors sold today are based on OLED panels. 

LG Display says that Korean OLED makers (i.e. LGD itself and Samsung Display) dominate the market - with about 99.8% market share. 

LG Display announced that it has started mass producing its latest WOLED panel, a 45" 1300 nits 21:9 5K2K panel, aimed towards high-end gaming monitors. The panel offers LGD's Dynamic Frequency & Resolution (DFR) technology that enables a choice between two modes, 5K2K 165Hz or FHD 330Hz.

Towards the end of 2024, LG Electronics unveiled the first monitor to use this new panel, in its UltraGear GX9 monitor series.

Last week LG Electronics officially launched its 2025 OLED TV range, where some of the high-end models reaching 4,000 nits. LG Display today unveiled the technology behind these new OLED displays.

LGD's so-called META 3 WOLED panels (which are the company's 4th-gen WOLEDs) achieve 33% higher brightness to each a maximum of 4,000 nits. The new panels adopt a new stack structure that has two layers of blue emitters and two more layers, one with red emitters and one with green emitters. LGD refers to this architecture as a "Primary RGB Tandem structure". 

DSCC (now part of Counterpoint) says that OLED evaporation material sales will grow 22% in 2024, and will continue to grow at a 6.4% CAGR from 2024 to 2028. Most of the growth will come from IT display panels, for laptops, monitors and tablets.

Interestingly, DSCC estimates that Chinese material developers enjoyed a 58% increase in sales in 2024 to $252 million. The primary reasons for this sharp increase in demand is increased utilization at Chinese AMOLED fabs, increased orders from local companies in China over sourcing these materials from the rest of the world, and new range of materials introduced by materials makers (as Chinese material developers move from intermediates production to emitters and dopants).

Samsung Display is set to show new OLED technologies at CES 2025, including new foldable display, rollable ones, automotive displays, next-gen QD-OLED panels and more.

So first up, Samsung will be showing a 18.1 foldable OLED display (which it says is the world's largest). This panel is suitable for IT devices - to enable devices that combine tablet, laptop and monitor devices into one. When folded, this display is 13.1" in size. 

Omdia estimates that shipments of OLEDs over 9-inch in size (which Omdia defines as large-area OLEDs, although most companies will refer to these sizes as medium-sized OLEDs) will increase 116.5% in 2024, and will rise a further 32.7% in 2025.

This growth is driven by increasing demand for OLED monitors, tablets and laptops.