CES triggered comments on OLED notebook

Large size OLED-display.cnLEDw.com/ >LED display on the high profile of the CES triggered a heated debate about the possibility of the commercialization of OLED notebook industry. Notebook manufacturers and industry analysts believe that the OLED laptop will have space for further development in size, weight, power, but it can be predicted that in the future it will no longer serve only to a small range of high-end users.

In this CES, Samsung and SONY have released a large size OLED display. It is reported that SONY 11 inch OLED TV XEL-1 cost more than $1700. Currently, a number of companies are actively developing this type of display, but so far, has not yet used the screen of commercial products come out.

Manufacturing problems, high cost, low yield is the main problem faced by large screen OLED. 7 inch ultra mobile personal computer (UMPCs) appears, will become the field of OLED technology application, and now the technology is mainly used in cellular phones and portable wireless media player 3 inches below the screen.

Senior analyst Steve Sechrist said: the current cost of such products is huge, and this phenomenon will continue to solve the problem of mass production. In the CES exhibition hall, we thought we would have witnessed a large number of OLED UMPC display style, but an exhibit did not see. "

Werner said: on the CES, Samsung 1920 x 108014 inches display and notebook prototype using this screen debut. I said before 2009, we will not see the commercialization of OLED notebook, it will become the first class products. "

Such products have their own mission. This week, Apple's president Steve Jobs released a $1700 laptop MacBook Air, MacBook Air using a traditional LCD screen, the thickness is only 0.16-0.76 inches, weighing 3 pounds. And OLED can accelerate the trend of this lightweight notebook notebook.

Hewlett-Packard expert Bob Myers said: "OLED is the biggest advantage of LCD can bring notebook is thinner, lighter, more energy, but the high cost of the weakening of the advantages, the application of OLED only one day in the future. I would like 2010, notebook size, and even smaller size (10.4-13.3 inches) of OLED into the market. We have seen the use of OLED products in the field of road signs, but they cost at least 2 times the LCD, which will limit the market for such products. "

Myers agree with the above analysis, he believes that in the panel manufacturers to invest in the development of the next generation of fabs, applied to large size OLED, the product is just a fashion concept. DELL computer system architect Bruce Montag also agree with this.

At the CES press conference, SHARP announced the company's 2007 LCD panel output of 74 million in the next few years, the company will not be OLED as mainstream products. SHARP's U.S. market leader Michael Troetti, said: in the current CES, we see and hear a lot of information about OLED products, Xia Puzheng actively develop the technology, but in the near future will not replace LCD. SHARP chairman Toshihiko Fujimoto explained that the size of the OLED average life expectancy of 4 years, and it is difficult to large-scale production. In contrast, LCD has been very perfect in its development history, in the current CES, SHARP released the tenth generation LCD panel. (http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml; jsessionid=BTAOWWF2E2HIGQSNDLSCKHA? ArticleID=205900487)

Source: China Semiconductor Lighting Network