Apple into the OLED panel will impact on small size LED

As apple is expected in 2018 in the intelligent mobile phone into the OLED panel, may cause the mobile phone brand by follow up, EPISTAR chairman Li Bingjie, chairman Su Fengzheng agree Lunda will impact the production of small size LED backlight, the fastest may come up in 2018.

The OLED panel is self luminous, due to its characteristics without backlight, can reduce the thickness of the panel to more thin trend, but also because the characteristics of no backlight, backlight module factory, LED factory was named for the victims under the new technology revolution, as apple is expected in 2018 in some models of import OLED specifications, and releases large purchasing orders to Samsung, OLED panel technology seems to mature, the LED industry has raised concerns about the impact of.

EPISTAR chairman Li Bingjie on LEDTaiwan pointed out that OLED is a surface light source, or a surface light source can not reach requirements at home LED lighting, OLED lighting effects on the household's rise; in the backlight, he believes that LCD and OLED are still spread in the large size application influence little, mainly in small the size of the panel.

He pointed out that if the 2018 Apple uses OLED panel, because Taiwan does not have Apple's supply chain, the influence of Taiwan slightly, but Apple's action will attract other brand factory follow up, which will impact on the value of small size LED backlight.

The chairman said Ronda Su Feng regular, backlight LED area and the number of related, although he recognized the rise of OLED will affect the demand of small size LED, but because of the wide range of LED applications and mobile phone, NB, monitor, TV tablet and TV, the mainstream size to 40 inches or more mobile, overall by contrast, should be limited the impact on the overall output value.

Nichia days before dinner on the said, OLED still faces challenges in product stability and quantity, and the performance of the LED continues to rise, even apple will only a few Model, LED will not be completely replaced.

Taiwan / IEK statistics, although the 2015 OLED lighting market size of less than $100 million, but the outlook for 2016, with soft lighting OLED listing and promotion, and in automotive applications into the OLED lighting market expectations can greatly grow. IDTechEx forecast OLED lighting market will grow from less than $200 million in 2025 to $1 billion 900 million scale.

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