According to a survey released by Japan's private investigation agency, the overall market for the OLED panel in 2017 (including smartphones, television sets and TV sets) was boosted by the introduction of OLED panels on the iPhone X that Apple launched on November 3, 2017 , Smart watches and other purposes) grew by 12.3% to 478.88 million, and because Apple is expected to expand the use of OLED panels in the future, Chinese manufacturers expected to follow Apple's footsteps, it is estimated that by 2018 the global OLED panel market will be presented Rapid growth is projected to increase 34.1% to 635.5 million.
Due to the demand for OLED panels, panel makers such as Sharp, JDI, BOE, CSOT and Tianma Microelectronics are actively investing in equipment. It is estimated that the above manufacturers will invest between 2019 ~ 2020 During the formal production of OLED panels, coupled with the demand from the smart phones in addition, the demand for television OLED panels are also expected to be expanded, so the global OLED panel market in 2022 is expected to expand to the size of 1,536.6 million , A 2.6x increase (264% increase) over 2016 (422 million tablets).
In terms of the OLED market for smartphones alone, the growth of the global smart phone market in 2017 was blunted. However, under the iPhone X blessing, the OLED panel market grew by 10.8% to 421 million units, of which iPhone X was estimated with the number of OLED panels Up to about 60 million due to the 2018 three new iPhone machine in the sale, it is estimated there will be 2 will carry OLED panels, boosting the 2018 iPhone with the OLED panel market is expected to significantly expand to more than 100 million level .