SONY spent heavily to accelerate the development of large size OLED

Sony accelerated organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel of large size in development, and enhance the quality, will invest about 22 billion yen (about $200 million) to the panel factory production equipment, according to Bloomberg information (Bloomberg) reported, Sony intends to 2008 second half of the year began investment. The year 2009 further established production technology. Taiwan other panel makers this may change the industrial ecological technology also can not ignore, including Samsung Electronics (Samsung ELectronics), Panasonic (Matsushita Electric), Canon (Canon), Hitachi (Hitachi) and the Taiwan factory is very odd crystal product investment, AUO was observed in.

Bloomberg information mentioned, Sony will be on a joint venture with TOYOTA automatic loom ST LCD's the Dongpu cause of enhanced production equipment, production size for the 3.5 generation (600mm * 720mm) glass substrate.

OLED TFT LCD, PDP panel compared with less power consumption and quality performance is good, can also be thin to below 1mm thickness. Sony launched the world's first OLED TV in December 2007, causing a heated discussion in the market. The TV is only 11 inches large size become Sony days after the development of the spindle in the field.

Sony OLED TV officially declared in addition to the current production, the Samsung OLED TV as a highlight, Samsung is expected in 2009 to enter the OLED TV market, and will start selling 40 inches OLED TV in 2010.

In Sony and Samsung have locked OLED market, Japan's 3 largest technology factory of Panasonic (Matsushita Electric), Canon (Canon), Hitachi (Hitachi) is produced by the formal agreement, the 3 companies will work together to jointly announced the development of this emerging technology for the future development of OLED OLED, the high-profile.

In domestic manufacturers, the odd crystal by the CMO investments for AMOLED panel development is the most active, in addition to actively enhance the yield of the first production line, second odd crystal production lines also joined the production plan to start at the end of the year, the subsequent production will continue to improve, to small and medium size AMOLED architecture the panel complete product line.

Opposite Yu Qijing in the small size AMOLED panel market money, AUO have different opinions for the OLED market, said in the financial report of the meeting's vice chairman Chen Xuanbin the day before, the OLED panel development space is less than 2 inches, but is of large size OLED TV larger development opportunities.

In fact, AUO earlier also tried to develop OLED panel, general manager Chen Lai said, the development of a few years ago AUO set experimental line OLED panel, is mainly to the small size of the mobile phone panel, but because of the OLED materials, equipment is not stable, coupled with the high, so then stop OLED panel AUO related research work. In the past 2 years, OLED panel technology, materials and equipment are improved, causing the market shock plus Sony OLED TV, so AUO development and change is also observed in OLED market, the OLED experimental line although not in development, but still retained.

Industry pointed out that the OLED process is difficult, involving complex chemical processes, but OLED has high brightness, energy saving and light competition advantage, although the OLED screen cost far more than the LCD screen of your many, however, with the technology improvement and development of science and technology, OLED is expected to cost more and more cheap.

But also the industry think, OLED to comprehensive development still needs time, especially the related components and supporting the whole supply chain investment is still inadequate, with TFT to LCD panel industry output value, the size of each match, there is still a long time to go.

According to research institutions, 2008 color OLED market is expected to grow to $280 million, and in 2013, the market size will be enlarged to 2 billion 800 million dollars. Although in 2008 the main application of OLED is still locked in the small size of the market, and to the mobile phone based, but there are some large companies predict that OLED will be in 5 years to allow television, mobile phones, computer screens and lighting market to show new board.

Source: hard line