‘Single-Fold’ OLED Smartphone Displays Possible Soon, DSCC CEO Says
Flexible OLEDs for smartphones will “enable larger displays that fit in a smaller area,” so the displays are expected to expand to “seven, nine, even 10 inches" and "become quasi-tablets,” Ross Young, CEO of Display Supply Chain Consultants, told a…
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Display Week conference Monday here in Los Angeles. DSSC sees that “as a huge opportunity for Apple and Samsung in particular, as they have secured a much higher capacity in OLEDs than they have in the overall smartphone market,” said Young. “We see a growing number of prototypes for foldable displays, and I think it makes perfect sense to want to have a tablet that you could fold, and it becomes a smartphone. Who wouldn’t want a bigger display on their smartphone?” Technical "challenges” must be overcome before foldable OLED displays can be “high-yielding” at the factory, said Young.