As a new type of screen, OLED has the advantages of no backlight, self-luminous, larger viewing angle, more color, significant energy saving, flexible bending, etc. As Apple follows some Chinese manufacturers and Samsung Electronics The flagship smartphone iPhone X is starting to use OLED displays and is expected to see more handset makers and models using OLED displays by 2018. IHS Market had forecast that 36% of smartphones will have flexible OLED screens this year. In 2020, this proportion will rise to 53%.
Insiders pointed out that the future demand for OLED continued to rise, is expected to be in short supply until the flexible OLED screen until 2020. IHS Markit's latest report shows that the third quarter of this year, the global smart phone with OLED display market reached 47 billion US dollars, more The 3.6 billion U.S. dollars surged 30% in the same period last year, and industry insiders said the market for OLED screens will continue to grow rapidly as Chinese brands plan to adopt OLED screens in their devices.
IHS Markit pointed out that if the various models of small and medium-sized OLED display, the market in the third quarter of the scale has reached 14 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 20.4% over the same period last year.Large and small OLED screen includes a screen size of 9 Inch and below all kinds of screens can be applied to smart phones, tablets, wearable devices and other equipment.
Samsung Electronics is currently the world leader in the OLED display manufacturing market, accounting for 34.1% of the market share of Japan's Japanese monitors followed by the market share of 13.6%. LG Electronics ranked third with a market share of 11.7%. Sharp ranks fourth, with a market share of 8.2%.
Japanese companies first developed OLED display, but failed to grasp the opportunities for the development of the market.IHS Markit predicts that in the future this year, South Korea will still be the OLED display market share in the country with the highest market share of the absolute leading market share However, China's growth and investment will be the fastest, by 2020 China's OLED display production capacity will account for about 28% of global production capacity, becoming the world's second largest supplier of OLED display.