Samsung seems not show off large screen OLED TV at CES 2014.
Samsung said they focus on UHD TV canceling OLED TV mass production investment in 2014
Samsung failed to develop 3 OLED panel mass production process technology
Why Samsung merged not so successful Vitex Systems for OLED encapsulation technology?
Samsung does their M&A business in a ‘king of the hill way’
4. Samsung failed to develop 3 OLED panel mass production process technology
TFT Backplane process RGB material deposition process
Encapsulation process
5. Samsung failed to mass produce Vitex’s OLED encapsulation process technology
Multilayer Encapsulation
Source: http://oled-a.org/news_details.cfm?ID=760 , Vitex
Multilayer Deposition
6. Lessons learned from Samsung’s failure on encapsulation process technology
Source: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/monitors/display/20130416223720_Samsung_to_Delay_Production_of_Flexible_OLED_Displays_Due_to_Glitch.html
7. Why Samsung merged Vitex Systems for OLED encapsulation technology?
Vitex
Old HQ
Vitex Systems
3047 Orchard Parkway, San Jose, CA 95134
Samsung Venture Investment Co,
near W Plumeria Dr, San Jose, CA
Vitex
Last HQ
Vitex Systems
2184 Bering Drive, San Jose, CA 95131
10. Numerous OLED technologies are being developed or have yet to be viable to mass production
Materials
Samsung
LG Chemical
Cheil Industry
Duksan Hi-Metal
Doosan-CS Elsolar
SFC
UDC
Wonik
LG
LG Chemical
Idemitsu Kosan
UDC
LTPS*
AP System
SFA Engineering
Not applicable
Evaporation
SEMES
DMS
STI
Tokki
SFA Engineering
KC Tech
LIG ADP
Tokki
YAS
Fine Metal Mask
PoongWon
Precision
SEWOO Inc.
e-CONY
Encapsulation
AP Systems
LTS
SNU Precision
SFA Engineering
ULVAC
AMAT
Jusung
Engineering
Top Engineering
Avaco
11. Only LGD has technology feasible to mass produce large screen OLED TV