BOE AMOLED officially mass production, breaking the monopoly of Korean companies is not easy

BOE responded to its OLED layout: Chengdu's 6th generation flexible AMOLED production line was lighted and put into production on May 11 this year, and is expected to be mass-produced in October this year. The 6th generation flexible AMOLED production line in Mianyang has started construction. The Chengdu 6th generation line and the Mianyang 6th generation line have the same total investment, both of which are 46.5 billion yuan, and the design capacity is the same, both of which are 48K/month. As these two flexible AMOLED production lines are put into production, it will be able to establish the company's leading position in the flexible AMOLED field, which will enable the company to provide high-quality flexible AMOELD screens for global brand manufacturers.

At the end of last month, BOE announced the establishment of a 6-generation flexible OLED panel production line in Chengdu. This is China's first and second global mass-produced 6-generation flexible OLED panel line, breaking the Korean market in the flexible OLED panel market. Monopoly pattern. The stock price of BOE A also surged with this news, and the company's market value once broke through the 200 billion mark.

With the launch of the iPhone X, more and more manufacturers such as mobile phones, tablets, and TVs have begun to switch from traditional LCD screens to OLED panels. According to research firm IHS Market, 36% of smartphones will be equipped with flexible OLED screens this year. By 2020, this proportion will rise to 53%. According to another research report by Ubiresearch, the sales volume of AMOLED panels increased by about 38% in 2016, and in 2020, this data will rise to 49%, reaching a sales amount of 71.7 billion US dollars.

Zhang Yu, vice president of BOE, once revealed to the media that the 6th generation OLED line of BOE Chengdu, which has a total investment of 46.5 billion yuan, will be mass-produced on October 26, and is planned to be fully produced next year. The production capacity of the full production is 48,000 substrates per month (1850mmX1500mm). However, public data shows that only Huawei, OPPO, Vivo monthly flagship machine shipments exceeded 1 million units, due to limited production capacity, the OLED display device market as a whole in short supply.

Although the industry generally believes that due to the driving effect of downstream terminals, OLED panels will explode in the next few years, and in addition to BOE, Huaxing Optoelectronics, Tianma, Hehui Optoelectronics, Rouyu Technology, Visionox and other companies have announced The launch of the AMOLED production line, but China's power in the field of OLED is not optimistic.

BOE AMOLED officially mass production, breaking the monopoly of Korean companies is not easy

Foreign companies master core technology

If the panel industry companies are classified, they can be roughly divided into three types: upstream, midstream and downstream. The upstream industry is the core material, key equipment, glass substrate, the midstream enterprises are panel manufacturing, module assembly, and the downstream enterprises are terminal manufacturers such as mobile phones, wearables, and televisions.

BOE, Huaxing Optoelectronics and other enterprises belong to the OLED midstream enterprises. Although the layout of related industries has been increased, key equipment, core materials and meta-components are mainly in the hands of upstream companies such as Japanese companies and Korean companies.

When it comes to OLED, you have to say two major Korean pillar companies, Samsung and LG.

Unlike traditional LCD displays, OLED display technology eliminates the need for backlights and uses very thin organic coatings and glass substrates that illuminate when current is passed through. Moreover, the OLED display screen can be made lighter and thinner, has a larger viewing angle, and can significantly save power consumption.

South Korea's Samsung Electronics began to do OLEDs in about 2000. In 2005, it began to do flexible OLEDs, and has accumulated more than 10 years of production process experience. In the small-size OLED display, the market share is over 90%, which dominates.

OLED screens can actually be seen as a myriad of tiny red and green small bulbs that achieve different colors through changes in the ratio of the three colors. However, the life spans of red, green and blue organic materials are not the same. The red and blue sub-pixel lifetimes are much lower than the green sub-pixels. This causes the screen to be greenish after a period of use. .

To solve this problem, Samsung created the PenTIle sub-pixel arrangement. In simple terms, the traditional RGB pixel arrangement requires that all sub-pixels be identical in area, shape, and arrangement. Except for different colors (but the arrangement has obvious rules), all sub-pixels appear to be copied from each other.

However, the screens arranged by PenTIle are easy to distinguish because of the different arrangement. The most common case is that the sub-pixels of the three colors not only have different areas with each other, but also have different shapes and positions, so the whole panel looks It goes up like a copy of a pixel unit composed entirely of RGB sub-pixels, and in some special arrangements, a sub-pixel of a certain color may be a circle, and the other two sub-pixels are one wide and one narrow.

Although at the cost of reducing the sub-pixels and sacrificing the accuracy of the display effect, as the resolution of the mobile phone is further improved, the improvement of the PPI compensates for the accuracy problem. In turn, the advantages of screen life and power consumption are reduced.

However, this theory is not enough to put on a large-size OLED screen. Pure RGB OLEDs have to face high power consumption, low yield and the accuracy of this image. Especially for image accuracy problems, the current industry resolution is 4K, the display panel size is getting bigger and bigger, and the loss of sub-pixels will cause a significant drop in the display screen.

The large-size OLED screen has become the world of LG Display. By adding white pixels to the sub-pixels, the picture accuracy can be ensured while the brightness and contrast of the picture can be improved as a whole.

The WRGB method has more advantages in achieving high color gamut and high resolution. For example, it is possible to compensate for blue by color enhancement technology to achieve a high color gamut. Color-enhancement technology also enables smaller pixels to be used in the manufacturing process of large-size and ultra-high-definition panels, and enables the product to exhibit the same color at any viewing angle.

In addition, LG Display's WRGB technology uses oxide thin film transistors (Oxide TFTs) instead of traditional low temperature polysilicon (LTPS) TFT backplanes, as LG Display can partially convert existing LCD production lines for oxide backplane production. The choice of the oxide backing plate also optimizes the function of the OLED panel in terms of light transmittance and color reproduction capability. In the end, the overall cost of the screen is reduced and the yield is improved.

China's capital layout OLED has a long way to go

Zhang Yu, vice president of BOE, believes that the competition pattern of the global panel industry will be transformed from the current "three countries and four places" (Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan) to "two strong (China and South Korea) hegemony." Aowei cloud network analyst Song Yu also said that the global competition of OLED new display began to gradually tilt from the Korean monopoly to the Chinese mainland.

Japanese companies first developed OLEDs, but decided to withdraw completely. Now Japan Display (JDI), Sharp after the acquisition of Foxconn, has re-planned the 6th generation OLED panel production line; while Taiwan has been tracking OLEDs, but so far no bulk supply.

IHS predicts that in the next few years, South Korea will still be the country with the highest market share and occupy an absolute leading market share, but China will have the fastest growth and investment. By 2020, China's OLED production capacity will occupy global production capacity. About 28%, it has become the second pole of global OLED supply.

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