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Saturday, 30 April 2005 |
Taiwanese Vendors Focus on AMOLED Products
Nikkei Electronics Asia, Asia
There is no doubt that the OLED market is now taking off. DisplaySearch reported
that worldwide shipments of OLEDs doubled from 15 million pieces in 2003 to 30
million pieces in 2004, and are expected to double again in 2005, to 60 million
pieces.
According to DisplaySearch, the global OLED capacity share of Taiwanese vendors
was 44% in the fourth quarter of 2004. RiTdisplay, a major OLED supplier in
Taiwan, believes the total shipment volume from Taiwanese OLED vendors may
exceed those from Korea and Japan, making Taiwan worldwide number one in 2005.
There are around five Taiwanese vendors mass producing OLED products at present,
including RiTdisplay, AU Optronics (AUO), teco Optronics, Lightronik and
Univision Technology. Except for AUO, these companies are all solely devoted to
the manufacturing of OLED products. According to RiTdisplay, its shipment volume
in the fourth quarter of 2004 reached 29.3% in terms of worldwide market share,
which exceeded Samsung's 25.1% share and made it the worldwide No. 1 OLED
supplier. As for the first quarter of 2005, RiTdisplay remained number one in
terms of worldwide market share with 29.5% compared with Samsung's 28.3%.
DC Wang, president and CEO of RiTdisplay, said that the company started to
deliver its 1.5-inch full color OLED product in March, and expects total
shipment volume may exceed 5 million pieces in 2005. RiTdisplay mainly focuses
on MP3 and cell phone applications at present, and the shipment volume for each
application is expected to be fifty-fifty this year.
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