Mainland China has become the world's largest investment AMOLED area
'From the perspective of the development of the global display industry, mainland China and South Korea have become the major driving forces for the global OLED industry, while mainland China has the most positive investment in the OLED industry.' 'Guomin Technology Co., Ltd. of Shenzhen City European Mulan General Manager in 2017 First China Flexible Display Technology (Materials) International Forum Media Meetings said that data show that from 2016, the global OLED new line investment reached 315.5 billion yuan, of which 256.6 billion yuan investment in mainland China, as the world's largest AMOLED investment Area.
The data show that the current global production and output of OLEDs maintained rapid growth, production is expected in 2018 year-on-year growth of 50%, output value increased by 60% .2016 smartphone OLED screen will reach 25 billion US dollars scale, and Samsung accounted for 95% + market, that is basically Samsung exclusive.
Of course, other manufacturers, especially those from mainland China, have been going after catches up. In October this year, the 6th generation flexible AMOLED production line of BOE in Chengdu has achieved mass production, breaking the monopoly of foreign countries. However, Huaxing Optoelectronics, Pegasus, CIGNA, HGC and other manufacturers of new production line construction are also steadily advancing, and will further promote the application of China's OLED industrialization.At the same time, with the strong support of the government, China has shown some breakthrough in the industrial upstream industry chain, China shows the industry is ushering in an unprecedented favorable situation.
At the same time, OLED has also become the focus of the industry, especially the iPhone x smart phones with OLED screen will further promote the industrialization of OLED technology applications.With more advanced manufacturing equipment and materials engineering technology, flexible, Folding and surface display applications in electronic products to further enhance the future OLED display technology will be widely used in smart phones, VR, wearable devices, TVs, tablets, smart cars, the overall market prospects.
AMOLED mature application still has four major problems
OLED-based industrialization and broad market prospects, AMOLED applications have matured? Oulan Mulan said, the fact that the manufacture of true sense of the flexible equipment than imagined more difficult.At present, AMOLED is still in the early stages of industrialization, there Many problems need to be solved, mainly in the following aspects: First, AMOLED backplane technology is not yet mature technology; Second, AMOLED display pixels to achieve technology options; Third, AMOLED film selection process route ; Fourth, the above three aspects, AMOLED costs are still high.
Mulan stressed that due to the equipment manufacturing efficiency or unit capacity, yield, material utilization and other issues, AMOLED although theoretically have the advantages of simple structure, but the current stage of the cost of AMOLED is still high, it is difficult to compete with the TFT-LCD .
However, AMOLED and TFT-LCD will be a parallel industry trend in the next few years.Xu Shiying, secretary-general of China Organizing Committee of Flexible Display Technology (Materials), said AMOLED will gradually penetrate, and in different application fields, AMOLED and TFT-LCD has different application advantages, the development of OLED and can not completely replace the TFT-LCD, both in different areas have different strengths.So, AMOLED flexible display in the proportion of small and medium-size applications will gradually increase, However, TFT-LCD will continue to be adopted.
And as one of the domestic display module companies, the country was also keeping up with the latest technology development of science and technology, increase the flexible display technology research and development and layout.Ou Mulan said that the current national science and technology in full screen, narrow border, high color saturation, High-resolution, high-brightness, eye protection technology has made development achievements in the future, the country will significantly enhance the depth of cooperation with upstream and downstream industry chain enterprises to promote the application of domestic flexible display technology development, to provide the market with a more flexible experience Display product.
Overall, the field of OLED or Samsung dominance, and the most advantage in mass production technology, but in the upstream materials, equipment supply, as well as technical process, there is still some room for growth. Mainland China based on the original display technology In recent years, especially in the display area of nearly ten years of research and development investment, coupled with a huge application market, the future of flexible OLED production technology has certain advantages, overtaking corners will not be impossible.