China-based Visionox starts AMOLED trial production
China-based Visionox has recently started trial production at its AMOLED line, which it has jointly set up with the Kunshan New Flat Panel Display Technology Center, according to the company.
The production line will fist produce 3- to 12-inch AMOLED panels and will later expand to 12- to 17-inch products, Visionox noted.
The production line is the first AMOLED line in China, market observers noted.
Other China-based players such as Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics, Guangdong Sinodisplay Technology and Irico Group Electronics, have also started developing OLED panels, according to a Chinese-language report on FPDisplay.com.
OLED is considered to be the next major display technology after TFT-LCD and PDP, and both Samsung Mobile Display (SMD) and LG Display (LGD) have recently announced plans to expand investments in the technology, the observers pointed out. SMD will spend 2.5 trillion won (US$2.09 billion) by 2012 expanding its AMOLED capacity, while LGD will invest 250 billion won in the second half of 2011 to triple its AMOLED capacity.
SMD's AMOLED capacity is expected to be larger than the sum of the rest of the capacities worldwide, indicating that the company is determined to dominate the market in the future, said Digitimes Research.
In Taiwan, AU Optronics (AUO) is also eyeing the OLED market. Earlier this year, it announced recruitment plans for its core business and new operations, such as solar and OLED.
Industry sources have revealed that AUO will start equipment installation for its OLED production line in the third quarter of 2010 and plans to start volume production of small- to medium-size OLED panels for use in handsets and hand-held devices in 2011.
The sources have said that vendors such as Nokia have been urging AUO and Chimei Innolux (CMI) to gear up developing OLED panels, as Samsung currently occupies over 95% of SMD's AMOLED capacity.
The production line will fist produce 3- to 12-inch AMOLED panels and will later expand to 12- to 17-inch products, Visionox noted.
The production line is the first AMOLED line in China, market observers noted.
Other China-based players such as Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics, Guangdong Sinodisplay Technology and Irico Group Electronics, have also started developing OLED panels, according to a Chinese-language report on FPDisplay.com.
OLED is considered to be the next major display technology after TFT-LCD and PDP, and both Samsung Mobile Display (SMD) and LG Display (LGD) have recently announced plans to expand investments in the technology, the observers pointed out. SMD will spend 2.5 trillion won (US$2.09 billion) by 2012 expanding its AMOLED capacity, while LGD will invest 250 billion won in the second half of 2011 to triple its AMOLED capacity.
SMD's AMOLED capacity is expected to be larger than the sum of the rest of the capacities worldwide, indicating that the company is determined to dominate the market in the future, said Digitimes Research.
In Taiwan, AU Optronics (AUO) is also eyeing the OLED market. Earlier this year, it announced recruitment plans for its core business and new operations, such as solar and OLED.
Industry sources have revealed that AUO will start equipment installation for its OLED production line in the third quarter of 2010 and plans to start volume production of small- to medium-size OLED panels for use in handsets and hand-held devices in 2011.
The sources have said that vendors such as Nokia have been urging AUO and Chimei Innolux (CMI) to gear up developing OLED panels, as Samsung currently occupies over 95% of SMD's AMOLED capacity.
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