LG will soon deliver OLED panels to Samsung?


Samsung Electronics has reportedly signed an settlement with LG Show for the provision of OLED panels.

Samsung has been identified for years for its lead within the discipline of AMOLED shows. Nevertheless, that lead solely lasts for smartphones. Within the discipline of shows for televisions, the model remains to be lagging behind. LG has even obtained nearly unique rights to the OLED marketplace for televisions – that lead additionally acquired Samsung Electronics considering, insiders report back to Reuters. The patron division closed a take care of LG’s Show division for the acquisition of hundreds of thousands of OLED panels.

A number of sources report that deliveries ought to begin this quarter. It’s unclear whether or not the panels may even be utilized in Samsung televisions this yr. What is for certain is that it will occur subsequent yr; then LG Show has to ship two million OLED screens. Years later, this will increase to a most of 5 million OLED screens. Additionally it is identified that LG Show solely provides bigger OLED screens in sizes of 77 and 83 inches in the interim.

QD-OLED versus LG OLED

It’s suspected that Samsung will arrange a separate vary of OLED televisions with LG panels. They’d then compete instantly with Samsung’s QD-OLED televisions, for which Samsung Show itself manufactures the QD-OLED screens. The distinction between these screens is that QD-OLED makes use of OLED with blue particular person LEDs shining via a Quantum Dot filter. LG, however, makes use of a extra conventional pixel association with RGB pixels and a white sub-pixel.


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It’s fairly attainable that televisions with LG panels will grow to be cheaper than Samsung’s QD variants. This new expertise remains to be comparatively costly in comparison with inexpensive televisions with LG OLEDs. In consequence, it could possibly compete higher within the unruly OLED section. In doing so, the South Korean expertise large not solely competes towards LG, but in addition producers resembling Sony who invented the LG route earlier.

Distribution of OLED market share

It’s already an important step for Samsung to develop its OLED market share. That share is now at 6.1 p.c, in comparison with 54.6 and 26.1 p.c for Sony and LG, respectively, reviews analysis company Omdia.