Chinese companies competing in the world of flexible screen market
Economic Information Daily
China's manufacturers have also begun to seize the highlands of the world's flexible products market.Some time ago, the domestic flexible display manufacturer Visson produced a new product - 5.99-inch AMOLED flexible display.This screen not only thin, clear, and can Completely folded like a book.
"This means you can fold a pad into a single handset and a handful of domestically made handsets use our latest flexible AMOLED display," said Zhang Deqiang, Vice President of Wizards.
Flexible screen, called OLED, which AMOLED is the most common one. Compared with the traditional LCD screen, OLED screen with low power consumption, high brightness, color rich, thinner, can be bent and other characteristics, the obvious advantages.
Flexible screen can not only make cell phone borderless design possible, but also can be made into a variety of curved products, used in smart home, sports fashion, intelligent transportation, robot (18.670, -0.35, -1.84%) and other fields.
Foldable mobile theater, transparent and flexible smart phones, smart smart backpacks that can 'talk' ... At the fair, another flexible display manufacturer in China, Softtech demonstrated their technological capabilities.
Soft-technology chairman and CEO Liu Zihong introduced soft-technology's three core technologies and products, including the world's thinnest 0.01 mm thin flexible display, the new flexible electronic sensors, Royole Moon3D head theater, has more than 1,300 reserves at home and abroad Key core intellectual property rights, and product sales to more than 20 countries and regions.
In the field of OLED production, Samsung Korea in recent years a dominance in 2016, Samsung AMOLED panel production capacity of about 370 million, of which flexible AMOLED handset panel shipments of 60 million, accounting for almost AMOLED screen panel shipments of 99%.
Market research firm IHS Markit predicts that OLED sales will reach 21 billion U.S. dollars by 2017, nearly double the 2015 sales volume.
The huge demand for OLED in the market makes it become the contending field for Chinese electronics manufacturers. In recent two years, companies such as BOE, Visionox, Rouyu, Tianma and Huaxing Optoelectronics have all started to layout OLED related fields vigorously.
In the second half of 2017, the news of the mass production of flexible panels by Chinese domestic manufacturers continued to come in. In September, Visionox announced the successful launch of the flexible AMOLED 'full screen' product line and formally started the supply to the downstream smart phone industry chain. In November , BOE is located in Chengdu, the 6th generation of flexible AMOLED production line officially mass production.Liu Zihong said soft-technology 6-generation full flexible display will be put into operation around the 2018 Spring Festival.
Although production is close at hand, but the competitiveness of Chinese manufacturers still need to be improved.Industry data show that the current yield of Samsung has more than 90%, but the domestic yield is generally only about 60%; 2016, Samsung's flexible screen The price has dropped to quite the same with the LCD screen, while domestic manufacturers is still difficult to achieve.
In the face of difficulties, China's domestic panel makers are actively tackling the technical and cost challenges of flexible screens, which have begun to emerge in different sectors of the flexible display industry chain.
'With the growth of Huawei, BOE, TCL, Visionox and other companies, China has the opportunity to lead the development of some flexible display applications', said Hu Chunming, deputy secretary general of China Optics and Optoelectronics Industry Association LCD Branch.