Archive for the ‘OLED’ Category

Flexible Displays - Graduating to Plastic

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

By David Barnes, Vice President, Strategic Analysis Remember your first date? I took Silvia to see “The Graduate” staring a (then) young Dustin Hoffman. In the movie, Hoffman’s Benjamin Braddock character is taken aside by Mr. McGuire, a middle-aged man who offers career guidance to the college graduate. “I just want ...

Oxide Semiconductors: Potential Revolutionary AMOLED Fabrication Technology

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

by Charles Annis, Vice President, Manufacturing Research SID, the display industry’s leading annual academic conference, is always a great source of information on R&D into future display technologies. Crystallization of a-Si to p-Si and its application to AMOLED fabrication have been a favorite topic of the symposium for several years now. ...

Apple’s Foray Into AMOLEDs: “Not Yet”

Monday, March 31st, 2008

by Barry Young, Senior Advisor and Consultant Gartner and Gizmodo took opposites sides of the same story about the Apple iPhone and AMOLED displays and they both got it wrong. How could this be, from two widely quoted and respected organizations? Ken Dulaney of Gartner reportedly said the second generation iPhone with ...

Toshiba, Sharp Hitachi, Canon, Matsushita Samsung and Samsung SDI Deliver OLED News

Monday, January 7th, 2008

by Barry Young, Senior Advisor and Consultant The month of December was filled with groundbreaking and confusing news, which is an indicator of just how significant OLEDs are becoming: Hitachi, Canon and Matsushita announced a new alliance to work on OLEDs. Toshiba announced that it cannot produce a 30” AMOLED TV by 2009, ...

Sumitomo Doubles Down and Purchases CDT while OSRAM Folds

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

By Barry Young, Senior Vice President In the period of less than one week, two very successful and well-capitalized high tech companies took a look at the same business opportunity—polymer based OLEDs (P-OLED)—and executed the exact opposite strategy. Sumitomo, presumably closer to the technology, saw the potential to be a ...