OLED panels are often found in high-end products because of their superior image quality and other advantages. Especially in today’s world, this technology is very common in flagship phones. However, OLED also has some disadvantages, such as its high cost and fragility. Fortunately, technology is here to help us. There is now a laser machine that can fix green lines on OLED displays without the need for replacement parts. Here are the details…

Laser Machine Repairs Green Lines on OLED Displays

Green lines are probably one of the most common OLED malfunctions. These lines on OLED screens can be caused by broken or uneven traces within the panel, damage from water or falls, or a loose or damaged display connection. If you see green lines on your OLED screen, you can try restarting your phone. However, you may need to take it to a repair shop to have the screen diagnosed and repaired. This repair usually results in a screen replacement and a significant cost. But this is changing.

The YouTube channel Stranger Parts recently introduced us to a very interesting machine. The laser machine works by repairing the broken internal traces of the OLED panel. These traces carry electrical signals across the display. When they are broken, users often notice visible lines on the screen. The laser machine recreates the broken traces within an OLED panel in the same way they were initially made in the factory. The repair process takes just a few seconds, and the green line disappears instantly.

The best part is that the screen does not need to be taken apart or even turned off during the repair process. Of course, this does not mean that the repair is easy. An expert still needs to find the location of the fault that causes the green line on the OLED and then correct it with the laser from the machine. However, this is much easier and more cost-effective than replacing the panel as before. It is expected that the first generation of this product will become much more common and developed in the near future.

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Japan Display Inc. (JDI) has announced a strategic partnership with Chinese display manufacturer HKC to jointly develop next-generation OLED technology. The collaboration aims to combine JDI’s expertise in display technology with HKC’s manufacturing capabilities to create innovative OLED panels for various applications. Here are the details…

JDI and Chinese Company HKC Join Forces to Develop Next-Generation OLED Technology

JDI, primarily known for its LCD panels, has recently delved into the OLED market. This partnership signifies its commitment to advancing OLED technology and expanding its presence in this growing industry. The alliance will involve not only OLED technology but also semiconductor fabs, global innovation and industrialization centers, and high-end automotive display businesses.

The companies plan to jointly build a semiconductor fab using JDI’s eLEAP OLED technology, targeting mass production by 2025. This next-generation OLED technology employs mask-less deposition and photolithography, resulting in a doubled peak brightness and a threefold increase in lifespan compared to previous technologies.

The ambitious partnership aims to dominate various display panel sectors, including being the top global wearable device shipment and market share by 2027, the top global shipment and market share for VR, monitors, and automotive displays by 2028, and the third-largest global shipment and market share for notebook and tablet panels by 2028.

This collaboration between JDI and HKC showcases the potential for groundbreaking innovation and growth in the OLED market, as the two companies bring together their expertise and resources to create cutting-edge display technologies.

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Chinese display giant BOE, in its conference call for the first half of 2020, stated it plans to ship more than 40 million units of flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels this year.

The company in a statement claimed to have shipped around 16 million units of 6th generation flexible OLED panels in the first half of the year. Over  24 million units is projected to be shipped in the second half of the year, so that total shipment for the year will exceed 40 million units. According to BOE, 4 million units was moved from July to August.

If the company meets its yearly target, it means they had a 135% rise in shipment from last year. Omdia revealed that about 17 million units of flexible OLED were moved by BOE last year. With 40 million units shipped, it’s still about a quarter of annual shipment of Samsung Display, the biggest manufacturer of OLED.

There’s a plan by BOE to expand its OLED production line. Expected to go live in the second half of 2021, is the B12, at Chongqing. BOE aims to reach a monthly production capacity of 144,000 sheets per month. Meanwhile, they are exiting B7 and B11 line. The company has on table the plan to produce another fourth line called B15 at Fuqing in a later date, it will be a 6th generation OLED line.

Samsung Display, according to Stone Partners, shipped 29.3 million units of flexible OLED panels in the second quarter to control 63.2% of market share. Closely followed was BOE with 11.3 million units and 24.4% market share. Samsung in the first quarter had 81.9% market share with 37.9 million units, while BOE has 8.5% with 3.9 million units.

BOE said that out of the 16 million it made in the first half of 2020, the B11 line produced 4 million panels, which is otherwise called the Apple Line. The company didn’t reveal then which company bought the panels produced there, as they could not clinch an order from Cupertino for the iPhone 12 series.

The Chinese display giant is planning to ship OLED panels to Apple, of both B11 and B7 lines. BOE’s first flexible OLED line was the B7, which began operations in 2017. The line which is also known to have a stable yield rate has been supplied to Huawei amongst other Chinese smartphone makers.

The company also disclosed during the conference how difficult it will be to say for the larger OLED panel if the inkjet printing OLED was superior to the White OLED. LG Display used the White OLED technology for its OLED panels aimed at TVs, which adds a white pixel to the standard red, blue and green ones. While the Inkjet printing OLED will project the light emitting material into the panel.

COST, which is next to BOE in terms of production of display, said they planned to build a factory that will manufacture large OLED panels in Guangzhou in 2023

During the conference call, BOE said they will begin the production of miniLED panels in the fourth quarter.

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Outside China, Visionox Co Ltd may not be a popular brand but the firm is a leading Chinese manufacturer of organic light-emitting diode screens popularly known as OLED screens. Some of the popular products you know have OLED panels supplied by Visionox onboard like the Xiaomi Mix Alpha, Mi CC9 Pro, ZTE’s first 5G mobile phone Axon10 Pro, Nubia Red Devils 3, China Mobile 5G mobile phone pioneer X1, LG mobile phones, etc. Sources close to the company have disclosed that Visionox has entered into a partnership with Huawei to supply display panels for some of the tech giant’s product lines.

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The sources hinted that Visionox has already received Huawei’s official supplier code and will provide samples for Huawei from February 2020. They also disclosed that the mass production of the screens will commence a month later in March. The company will reportedly supply Huawei with display panels for the Honor and Nova series.

However, there are concerns that Visionox current production capacity may not be able to meet up with Huawei’s demand. Huawei is expected to order 5-10 million mobile phone screens from Visionox in 2020. This may likely include punch-hole OLED displays which have been elusive from Huawei’s product line.

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Japan tech giant Sharp has unveiled its OLED panel line designed for handsets, sources indicate. The brand which is owned by Foxconn Group is reportedly aiming to enter the supply chain for future iPhones that would utilise OLED displays. In addition, there are speculations that Fitipower Integrated Technology, another Foxconn company, is engaged in the development of OLED panel driver ICs jointly with Sharp.

OLED seems to be the future of smartphone displays and more LCD panel suppliers are now capable of producing OLED displays for smartphones in commercial volume. As a result, Taiwan-based driver IC firms and related backend houses are gearing up to grow their presence in the OLED panel segment in 2019. According to industry sources, Taiwan-based LCD driver IC firms including Novatek Microelectronics and Himax Technologies, and related backend companies including Chipbond Technology and ChipMOS Technologies are looking to start developing their businesses in the OLED panel sector in 2019. Chinese vendors such as BOE technology and Tainma are also putting efforts to grow their OLED panel supply. A recent data showed that BOE technology surpassed LG in terms of OLED supply for last year and the company is reported to supply Huawei OLED panels. LG Display has also seen improvement in sales of its OLED panels which accounted for over 10% of total panel revenues, according to the sources.

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Samsung Display still dominates the market for OLED panel, something it has been doing for quite some time now. AU Optronics (AUO) with its flexible OLED panel technology is also likely to cut into the supply chain of Android phone vendors, the sources continued. The industry is also said to be promoted on mid-range models featuring OLED displays this year and not just on flagships. Meanwhile, foldable smartphones adopting OLED panels are being reportedly regarded as the development focus of major brand vendors for their new generation series this year.

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The advent of full-screen designs made a shift to OLED display panels on smartphones utilizing the full-screen design more like compulsory. Samsung has been the biggest beneficiary of this situation as the company is said to be lining up between 200 – 300 million units for the iPhone X. Last year the company reportedly supplied 50 million units of OLED panels to Apple for the iPhone X. Samsung’s monopoly may soon be broken as Sharp has announced that it is ready to commence mass production of its own OLED panels.

Sharp’s President and CEO Dai Zhengwu stated this in a media briefing held this week. The CEO disclosed that Sharp had finished the production of OLED sample panels for smartphones and is now ready to start mass producing. However, we may not see the panels very soon as they would only be ready for use on smartphones launching in June or July this year. Sharp is also reported as planning to launch its own OLED display-packing smartphone around June or July.

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Earlier on, Nikkei had reported that Sharp will be the first display panel maker based in Japan that is capable of producing OLED panels. This is good news for the company, considering that Sharp is now owned by Foxconn who manufactures the iPhone X and other models for Apple. It is hoped that this would open up the market for the use of OLED panels among OEMs. A recent report states that Huawei, OPPO, and Xiaomi are looking to switch to mini LED panels due to OLED shortages but that may not happen anymore due to this recent development.

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As at the period Xiaomi launched the Mi Note 2 last year with a curved OLED display, there were speculations that the competition would shift to flexible display panels this year due to the rising number of interests in OLED technology especially the flexible panels. The launch of the Mi Mix alongside the Mi Note 2, perhaps contributed greatly to the shift of focus to large bezel-less displays. Seems attention is now heading back to OLED displays and as usual, Xiaomi is taking the front seat.

A report on South Korea media indicates that Xiaomi has signed an agreement with Samsung Display (SDI) for the supply of OLED panels for its 2018 flagship. The report claims Samsung Displays which is an arm of the conglomerate will supply rigid OLED panels to Xiaomi that are 6.01 inches in sizes. The first shipment which is about 1 million units will be done in December this year while the next batch said to be 2.2 million units will ship in the following month (January 2018).

The report also stated that Xiaomi’s well-publicised initial plan to use more sophisticated LG OLED panels was thwarted due to delays in LG’s production plans. It was LG who supplied the flexible OLEDs used on the Mi Note 2. The LG panels were supposed to be 5.49 inches in size but will be flexible OLED panels. Unfortunately, LG Display’s new plant that was supposed to mass produce the flexible OLED panels wasn’t ready on time and would commence production in August. It is not as if the flexible display would enable us to bend the smartphone like an elastic just yet. There will still be a rigid body and a front glass on top the display such that you might not even feel the effect of the flexible display. Well, except in a situation where the smartphone takes a serious fall that should ordinarily have shattered the display. Apart from its flexibility, LG is said to have effected some changes in the display panel resolution from FHD to QHD.

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Sharp has always been known its innovation in LCD TV technology right from producing the world’s largest LCD TV standing at 108 inches in 2007 to the manufacture of the first television with 8K resolution in 2015. The company has been blazing the trail in that direction but unfortunately, has been struggling in the face of one financial crisis or the other. Foxconn first announced its intent to acquire up to 66% controlling stake in Sharp in February last year. The deal was worth 700 billion Japanese yen (US$6.24 billion). The deal was finalized with Foxconn agreeing to pay US$3.5 billion for the stake instead. This investment by Foxconn resulted in Sharp’s first operating profit in three years, announced in April 2017 attributed to the restructuring efforts by Foxconn.

Looks like Foxconn is looking at diversifying the Sharp brand beyond its stronghold of LCD TV production as there are reports from Japan that Sharp may soon start manufacturing OLED TV panels at one of its plants next year. The report carried in the Japanese Times states that the tech giant will invest 57.4 billion Japanese yen ($515 million USD) in building two production lines for OLEDs, one located in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, and in the town of Taki, Mie Prefecture.

According to the report, the new production lines are expected to go into operation in April-June next year. The production lines would no only manufacture OLED panels for TVs but will mass-produce small and medium-size OLEDs for laptops and smartphones. Specifically, the Sakai plant is where the company plans to promote the development of large displays for TVs.

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The Foxconn-controlled company will, however, continue producing LCD panels, especially the development of 8K ultrahigh-definition liquid crystal display TVs as well. The addition of OLED production lines will only help in revamping the fortunes of the company as the demand for OLED panels is higher and Foxconn, as a contract manufacturer, already has a large client base where it would utilize the OLED panels Sharp would produce.

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The smartphone industry is growing at a tremendous pace and most of the growth is coming from China where there is a stiff competition among manufacturers. The competition has led to the release, in quick succession, of high -end smartphones packed with innovative features. If last year was the year of devices with 4GB of RAM and large batteries, this year perhaps will see the focus shifting to more sophisticated displays on flagships. The competition also drives a rise in demand for parts and other raw materials which are usually sourced from third party vendors in China, Taiwan, Japan and other countries.

The rise in demand for parts have been predicted to lead to shortage in parts or components used in the phones as the suppliers may not be able to meet the rising demand. This was made known by a source in Taiwan, one of the major supplier of smartphone components.

The source hinted that there is a rise in the production output of China-based brands, especially OPPO and Vivo, driven by global demands for China phones. The source also hinted that the drive by Chian-based brands to enhance their presence in the mid-range to high-end segment and a bi to ramp up their oversea shipment, ala Xiaomi, have all contributed to an increase in demand for smartphone components.

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One component that will likely see shortagein its supply is OLED panels, according to the source. The rumor that Apple will likely use OLED panels on one version of its iPhone 8 has spurred a drive by the China-based smartphone makers and others to place orders for small and mid-size OLED panels, and this will likely cause a shortage in supplies of OLED panels in 2017. Apart from OLEDs, the supply of small and mid-size TFT LCD panels are also exected to remain tight this year as the display size have shifted from the previous 5 inches to 5.5 and 5.7 inches on the average. The demand for high-end camera modules and optical sensing devices are also expected to rise in 2017.

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Seems OLED panels are now replacing LCDs in most gadgets as demand for OLED panels is said to be on the rise. According to a recent report by the Photonics Industry Technology Development Association (PIDA), worldwide purchases of OLED panels have increase. The association which is a nonprofit organization gathering technology and market analysis worldwide for Taiwanese optoelectronic industries, also projected that the market share in high-end televisions is expected to reach 68% in 2020.

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There is a steady interest in the use of OLED panels for smartphones of late and Apple has been one of those touted as planning a shift to OLED on one of its next generation iPhone models. In the past, Apple iPhones have traditionally launched sporting LCD panels, but in keeping up with the trend and perhaps because of the superior display quality OLED panels offer, the company is said to be tinkering with the idea of using it on one of its up coming iPhone 8 models and in future iPhones.

Rumor has it that the OLEDs that would be used by the iPhone 8 would likely be supplied by Samsung who seems to have perfected the technology. However, Samsung’s production capacity cannot meet its own demand for OLEDs for its smartphones and those of external manufacturers. Thus, a number of phone manufacturers do not have access to OLED screens. According to a report by IHS Markit, because Samsung cannot guarantee the supply of OLED panels, Chinese phone brands have already begun testing the local manufacturers of OLED screens.

The report reveals that presently the demand for OLEDs is from two of the biggest brands in OPPO and Vivo – two BBK subsidiaries. It went further to state that in 2017, other big brands like Meizu, Gionee, Lenovo, Huawei, Xiaomi will join the transition to OLED panels such that there’s projected to be a huge market demand that a reliance on only Samsung could lead to disappointment. IHS data put the rate of utilizaation of OLED screens in the domestic Chinese market at 13.6%, up from 8% in 2015.

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IHS Markit report also noted that if the domestic manufacturers in China could seize this huge demand/supply gap to improve on their production capacity, they will likely enter Apple’s supply chain. In clear terms, future Apple iPhones OLED supplies could be from local Chinese manufacturers. That is if and only when they upgrade their own technology to meet the standard of Samsung’s OLED. Already, results have not been disappointing, as Xiaomi Redmi Pro was revealed to have used OLED panels sourced from local suppliers and the display was superb.

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