The US Congress passes a bill to ban the US military from buying displays produced in China

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a new amendment to the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act, that may bar the US military from buying displays produced by companies backed by the Chinese (and Russian) governments.

While there are no OLED displays produced in Russia, all OLED producers in China are enjoying government subsidies, which may mean that these will be marked as government backed - and so will be blocked from working with the Pentagon. This is true for AMOLED, PMOLEDs and OLED microdisplays.

This will be interesting to watch. From our understanding, most US Military and defense related programs have already barred China-made OLED displays - and many other Western countries have done the same already. But this amendment may force more projects to bar China-made displays. Let's look at how the OLED industry looks today, geographically. 

For large-area OLEDs, virtually all panels are produced by LG Display (WOLED) and Samsung Display (QD-OLED). Samsung produces its QD-OLEDs in Korea, and LGD has fabs in Korea and in China (Guangzhou). China-based BOE also has a large-area WOLED production line, but it is a pilot line with limited capacity. For large-area OLEDs, it seems that there is no problem in using Korean made displays.