Chi Mei El Corp (CMEL), the OLED manufacturing arm of Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp, said yesterday it aims to start supplying displays for a top-five mobile phone manufacturer by the end of the year.
CMEL is in talks with several potential customers, including Samsung Electronics Co and Nokia Ojy, said Douglas Park, a vice president of CMEL.
"We hope to land at least one of them by the end of this year," Park said.
To cope with rising demand, Park said CMEL planned to spend NT$800 million (US$24.2 million) to more than double its monthly output to 1.2 million units by the first quarter of 2008, from it current 500,000 units.
In February, CMEL ramped up production of active matrix OLED displays for mobile phones, digital cameras and global positioning systems.
