During the first three months of 2016 deliveries OLED-panels reached 91.3 million units. Samsung company still dominates in this market segment, which accounts for as much as 95%.
As GSMArena writes, Samsung Display in the reporting period has shipped about 86.7 million OLED-display, which is 95% of the total supply OLED-panels in the world. Further growth will contribute to the inmate deal with Apple to supply OLED-panels for future iPhone. Subsidiary company Samsung has already invested $ 1.5 billion in its plant A3 to increase production volumes OLED-panels from 15 thousand units to 105 thousand units per month, which will meet the growing demand for OLED-displays.
However, Samsung runs the risk of competition from other Asian manufacturers, including Chinese companies. According to Hyundai Securities analyst, Japanese and Korean companies are cutting production volumes for LCD-displays, while increasing the volume of OLED-panels manufacture.
In the second place, after Samsung, the Korean company LG has settled the Display, which is now focused primarily on the issue of the OLED-TV panels as LG mobile division still prefer to use their own devices LCD-displays.
A publication SamMobile meanwhile reported that Samsung plans to continue to invest in the production of OLED-screens. To date, the Korean company has already spent on these purposes 2 trillion Korean won (about $ 1.7 billion) in the near future plans to invest another 3 trillion won ($ 2.56 billion). In total, up to the end of the year the amount of investments in OLED Samsung will be 5 trillion won ($ 4.26 billion). It is noted that Samsung sells some of its production lines to build LCD-displays, creating in their place a new line for the production of OLED-panels.
The next step will be the release of Samsung smartphones with folding OLED-display , which is the imminent appearance on the market this week has confirmed one of the top executives of the Korean giant. As expected, Samsung will introduce one or two smartphone with flexible displays early next year at the exhibition MWC 2017.