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Strong AMOLED Demand Pushed Samsung to Top Q3 Smartphone Panel Share, Says IHS

Samsung Display leapfrogged BOE in Q3 to retake top global smartphone display-panel share on “record-high demand” for AMOLED screens, reported IHS Markit Monday. Samsung had 29 percent of smartphone display shipments, leaping 7.7 points from Q2. Samsung last was top…

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in 2018's Q4. All major smartphone brands “have adopted AMOLED technology in their high-end models in 2019,” the researcher said. Samsung leveraged its reputation as the highest-quality and highest-capacity supplier of AMOLEDs to capitalize on that demand, it said. Smartphone AMOLED panel shipments totaled 146 million units in Q3, a 57 percent increase from Q2, said IHS.