Samsung Display just showed off a bunch of advanced OLED tech at a major industry event, with some interesting progress on high-refresh-rate laptop panels and new form factors.
At the IMID 2026 International Information Display Conference in Busan, South Korea, the company debuted a 16″ 2.5K OLED panel for laptops that can hit 300Hz. That’s a clear step up from earlier 16″ 2.5K OLEDs, which were stuck at lower refresh rates. The higher rate makes better use of OLED’s naturally fast response times.
They also showed a new 7.6″ wide-viewing-angle OLED. This one tackles a common complaint with current foldable displays: the way brightness drops off at the curved edges of the hinge crease. By using new organic light-emitting layer materials and some structural tweaks, the panel keeps things bright and even, even when you’re looking straight at the curved sections.
Another highlight was a 20″ wide stretchable display. Samsung made it by splicing two stretchable OLED panels together with advanced tech, and they’re calling it the world’s largest stretchable display. The join between the two panels is so minimal that it looks pretty much like one continuous screen.
Taken together, these demos show Samsung Display is still pushing OLED in different directions, from high-performance laptop screens that gamers might actually care about, to better foldables and stretchable panels that could eventually show up in cars, signage, or other specialised uses.
They didn’t share commercial timelines or exact brightness numbers for the 300Hz laptop panel at the show, but the exhibits make it clear the company is still innovating on both performance and form factor. We’ll probably start seeing laptop makers and other partners pick up the tech once it’s a bit further along.
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