The website OLED-Info.com points out that Apple recently hired an ex-LG executive who specializes in OLED technology.
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Additionally, LG Display's adoption of WRGB OLED technology addresses limitations inherent with large-sized OLED, such as productivity and lifespan issues.
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While Jobs and now Cook have derided OLED displays, Apple has been steadily filing for patents on OLED and related technologies.
In the past, even if Apple wanted to use OLED technology, it simply did not have availability of OLED panels.
With introduction of the world's first 55-inch OLED TV in January 2013, LG Display has demonstrated its position as a pioneer of the OLED TV era.
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Terms of the deal call for Samsung to pay a license fee to Universal Display, and to buy a minimum amount of phosphorescent OLED material use in OLED products.
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In past years we reported on many OLED patents by Apple including a flexible OLED based haptic display, OLED based BLUs for LCDs, OLED control schemes and others.
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The company's S-QLED technology improves on the picture quality and power consumption achieved by recently introduced OLED displays, while significantly reducing cost and improving lifetime well beyond what OLED can achieve.
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Apple has already tried to patent a flexible, wrap around display, which has to be an OLED screen, even though CEO Tim Cook claims OLED is not good enough for Apple.
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Consequently, we are extremely pleased with the excitement created by the OLED displays currently in the market, and the increase in new OLED product development that has been encouraged by these initial successes.
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Samsung is not the only one with OLED technology, but Samsung is believed to be the most advanced and closest to bringing flexible, bendable and unbreakable OLED screens in mass produced phones and tablets.
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TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced today that it will launch "Diamond Vision OLED, " the world's first, large-scale display system in the 100-inch and above range that uses organic light emitting diode (OLED) as its light source.
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The Korean manufacturer describes OLED screens as one of its "new growth engines, " alongside e-paper and solar cells, so even if we may consider development slow, it's looking increasingly likely that OLED TVs will eventually make their way into the mainstream.
Up until now, prototype OLED panels have been limited to a max size of about 40-inches.
Samsung has 99% of the global AMOLED display market, and 40% of the OLED market.
Example: The principles of standard quantum mechanics suggested that OLED screens could never be super energy-efficient.
The OLED story is also a case study in new and old American business attitudes.
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Without Universal there would be no efficient, thin, beautiful OLED display for the S4.
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Universal licenses OLED architectures to Samsung, as well as supplying phosphorescent material for the Galaxy range.
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Other companies, including Samsung and LG, have demonstrated larger-sized OLED-TVs in labs and technical conferences.
At IFA Samsung and LG are expected to show OLED screens as large as 65 inches.
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Even before its launch, LG's OLED TV was turning heads all over the world.
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And to cap it off, LG's OLED received Korea's Good Design President Award in October.
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Apple is the only major consumer electronics company that has not adopted OLED technology.
In the meantime, Sharp, Japan Display and LG Display have also been developing OLED displays.
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Ultra HD (4K) TVs are brilliant to look at, as are the new OLED displays.
Now, when customers see our razor-thin OLED TV for the first time, they're left speechless.
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LG's 55-inch OLED TV, which wowed us at the 2012 CES, is now up for pre-order.
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