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Samsung Display is starting producing foldable OLEDs for Apple's iPhone Fold (that will be released later this year), and according to reports in Korea, the company is planning to expand its foldable OLED production capacity. Samsung Display estimates that the demand for its foldable displays, mainly from Apple itself and Samsung Electronics will be higher than its current A3 facility can provide.

SDC, according to the reports, is looking to enhance its A4 production line so it too can produce foldable OLEDs.  It is interesting to note that the report suggests that the main enhancements to the A4 line will focus on the backplane process.

As the global electronics industry pursues supply chain diversification away from China's overwhelming dominance, India has emerged as a focal point for next-generation manufacturing. There’s much government backing towards the semiconductor industry, but our focus, of course is on the display industry.

Can India establish itself as a significant display manufacturing hub? In this article we look into India’s display research capabilities, the country's chemical industry, supply chain challenges, the geopolitical imperative to reduce Western dependence on Chinese production, and current OLED, LCD and microLED projects and efforts. We conclude by trying to predict where India is header, and whether there is a real chance that in the future will see a meaningful display industry in India.

OLED microdisplay developer Lumicore announced that it has started to construct a 12-inch OLED microdisplay fab, in the Nanjing Jiangning Development Zone.

Total investment in the new will reach around 1.2 billion Yuan (around $390 million USD), and the project is scheduled to be ready by 2027 (to initiate early production). Lumicore says that at full capacity, the new fab will produce 60,000 12-inch wafers each month, equivalent to an annual production of approximately 80 million 0.13-inch microdisplays, or 4 million 1.32-inch microdisplays.

Samsung Display will reportedly initiate mass production at its new 8.6-Gen IT production line in Asan in May 2026 - a few months ahead of schedule. Last month we reported that SDC has verified mass production at the fab, and has shipped the samples to potential customers (laptop makers). 

According to what we know, the first products out of the new line will be laptop AMOLED panels that will go to Apple - that signed an exclusive supply agreement with Samsung Display to produce touch AMOLED displays for its upcoming 2026 MacBook Pro laptops (both 14-inch and 16-inch models). 

In October 2025, Visionox announced that the main building of its $7.6 billion 8.6-Gen V5 AMOLED production fab in Hefei has been topped out. Today the company issued another update on this interesting project.

Visionox says that it has progressed with the fab construction, and it estimates that the fab is now 65% complete. The company expects to accept the deliveries of the cleanroom equipment in Q2 2026. Interestingly, the company admits that there are major difficulties in this project, far more than its previous projects - likely because of the new ViP maskless OLED production process it is deploying for the first time in the world.

According to a report from Korea, for the past two months BOE has been suffering from disruptions at its B11 AMOLED production line, which is where BOE produces smartphone AMOLED displays for Apple's iPhones. The production line started having quality issues at some of the processes, and BOE halted production already in November 2025.

According to the report, Apple has been forced to transfer an order of millions of iPhone OLED panels to Samsung Display, as BOE simply could not deliver the displays that Apple ordered from them. These issues at BOE's B11 line haven't been resolved yet.

Samsung Display Corporation stands today as the world's dominant OLED panel manufacturer, commanding approximately 40% of global OLED revenue and producing around 500 million AMOLED panels annually.  SDC’s OLED business is as profitable as the entire display industry together, if not more. This remarkable position represents the culmination of more than two decades of strategic investments, technological innovation, and calculated risks that began when OLED technology was still in its infancy.

Indeed, Samsung was the first company to fully commit to AMOLED production, and invested heavily in early R&D and took a leap of faith that was needed as the technology was not fully ready for mass adoption. In this article, we detail Samsung Display's history, AMOLED and QD-OLED capabilities and fabs, its technology roadmap, opportunities and challenges, and its OLED microdisplays and microLED projects.

BCDTek says that it has successfully installed the first production equipment at its upcoming K3 OLED module production line in Fengcheng, Jiangxi Province.  BCDTEK is now starting trail production at the K3 line, and will hopefully ramp up production in the near future.

The K3 line produces two kinds of OLED modules - flexible AMOLED displays for consumer electronics and automotive applications, and OLED microdisplays for VR/AR applications.

Samsung Display has reportedly started to produce AMOLED display samples at its 8.6-Gen IT production line in Asan. The company has verified mass production at the fab, and has shipped the samples to potential customers (laptop makers).

Samsung Display's original plan was to start full mass production in Q3 2026, or even a few weeks before that. It seems as if the company is progressing well, and it may aim to accelerate its production plan.