The potential market is bigger Canon coming into the OLED Market

Days before it has been reported that Canon has begun to develop OLED related products, and as it's with a digital camera and inkjet printer third career project. With the gradual maturity of OLED mass production technology, the world's major optical manufacturers are involved in the OLED industry competition, the industry believes that the market process of OLED products will also continue to accelerate in sight. According to reports, Canon plans to be in two or three years in Kanagawa County, the cause of the mound of the factory production of OLED panels and more than 60 inches projection type TV. In particular, Canon joined OLED in 2006 from the cause of activation of the 5 year plan, and decided from the annual budget of 300 billion yen to 500 billion yen to increase by OLED research and development activities, which is about 40% R & D will be put into main technology related to OLED.

Since Japan's SANYO motor and Kodak cooperation in the development and production of AMOLED panel, this road is ups and downs, although there have been applied to the mobile phone and digital camera and commercialization process, because the technology is not yet mature, low yield and high production costs, and finally to temporarily withdraw from the market. However, after several years of continuous development of new technologies and low cost process, has made considerable progress, but the Japanese SANYO motor OLED related products but no further commercialization plan.

Due to the layout of these OLED related industries and industrial dynamics, so that all walks of life can not help but hope that this industry does not hold. At this time, Canon suddenly announced to be involved in the development of OLED related products, no doubt on the OLED industry dropped a bomb.

If you carefully read the history of the development of Canon, in fact, Canon in the past has not given up the field of flat panel display, so also with Toshiba to develop a new generation of SED display technology, but Canon used into basic technology development related to OLED and has a number of patents, the Canon decided to invest 200 billion yen to commodity the development of new technology and the OLED, in addition to Chinese OLED has the advantages of LCD are not as wide viewing angle, high contrast and high color saturation of the image quality, but also in addition to the layout of another business strategy beyond its digital cameras and inkjet printer business.

It is reported that, because the OLED is ultra-thin, self luminescence, fast response, good temperature characteristics, can realize soft display and many other outstanding performance, its application is more abundant than ordinary LCD, has a wide application prospect in many fields. It is understood that OLED has begun to appear in a number of mobile products, mobile phone, the main screen and the MP3 player is the fastest growing applications since last year. In addition, the digital camera is also an important application direction, Kodak launched last year, the EasyShare LS633 digital camera for the first time using the OLED as its viewfinder screen.

At present, OLED has been considered to be the industry after CRT, LCD after the third generation of display technology, it has many advantages in technology. According to the latest market research firm DisplaySearch report, the second quarter of 2005 OLED shipments grew 82% over the same period last year, to 14 million 200 thousand; the second quarter OLED sales were $124 million 800 thousand, up 18% over the same period last year. This is the main driving force comes from the main phone screen, MP3 display, shipments grew by 7 million 100 thousand and 6 million 100 thousand.

From the OLED Shipping Statistics, 2004-2010 will be 10 times the number of times the height of growth in 2010 will reach 366 million. Analysts also pointed out that the current global OLED industry is still in the initial stage, China's OLED industry and the world the gap is not big, in addition OLED investment is much smaller than the LCD, all of these factors have prompted domestic enterprises and investors have to accelerate the investment OLED industry efforts.