One of the recent reports from The Elec unveils that Samsung Display has changed its priorities in order to develop the eighth generation IT OLED panels.
Adding further, Samsung is planning to slow its investment in the full cut. Its vertical deposition method has been developed with Japan’s Ulvac for more than a year duration. On the other hand, Samsung Display will switch its investment plan towards Canon Tokki’s half-cut horizontal deposition method. This has been under development, as per the sources.
Also, this method has been commercialized in order to supply Apple with OLED panels for iPad tablets. Since Apple is planning to come up with an iPad with an OLED panel.
Samsung Display has been curiously developing full-cut vertical deposition equipment with Ulvac. This is intended to make single-layer OLED panels or either single RGB emissive layer. The production is to cater supply to Asus and other PC makers.
Moving ahead, a project in association with Canon Tokki is for developing a half-cut horizontal deposition facility. Here, they manufacture dual-stack tandem OLED panels with dual RGB emissive layers.
Samsung Display is planning to use 8.7 generation substrates
Notably, Apple asked its display makers to develop OLED panels that are double-stacked in series. The reason for the delay in the Samsung -Ulvac project that due to the immaturity of the technology.
While Samsung Display is planning to use 8.7 generation substrates. Whereas the deposition equipment developed is more for 8.5 generation substrates. This has a dimension of 2290×2620 mm which does not seem large as compared to 2200×2500 mm. On the other hand, when it comes to the real implementation of making the device, a major redesign is supposed to be required.
Also, due to heavy slowdown in the economy indicates that Samsung Display is in a great rush to spend huge sums on eighth-generation OLED panels, which results in a result of fall in consumer electronics.
