Samsung's new OLED laptop

Samsung's new OLED laptop shows a thin body and odd, buttonless half-sized keyboard.

The picture of the newest Samsung OLED laptop concept suggests Samsung may actually be prepared to fight for a triple-spike in sales.

The 12.1" laptop is an ultra-thin AMOLED from Samsung's display devision. The 12.1" screen measures in at 1280 x 768 with infinite contrast.

While the display is definately on the mark, the keyboard may not be. A touch-sensitive keyboard seems less than ideal, not to mention only being half size. Notice the flap on the back? My guess is you fold that over the monitor to protect the screen where the halfling keyboard cannot.

Samsung OLED Laptop Coming in 2009?

It looks like Samsung might be bringing OLED to laptops, and they look pretty darn cool. Engadget is reporting that consumers could see the AMOLED (active matrix organic light-emitting diode) concept as soon as 2009. Which consumers, is always a question—Japan? U.S.? Anyone? The 12.1-inch prototype offers a 1280 x 768 resolution and self-illuminating screen. Plans for the super-thin package include 14- and 15.4-inch models. Aside from an improved picture quality, it has a mystery panel around the back that’s quite the buzz on the web.



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Sumitomo set to produce 40-inch OLED panels in 2009

Not that there was any doubt that OLED is on its way to larger sizes (hasn't it been since like 2005?), but Japanese firm Sumitomo Chemical announced its plans to produce 40-inch OLED panels for HDTVs some time in 2009, meaning Sumitomo-based TVs could hit the market in 2009 or 2010. Samsung's old-skool 40-inch OLED HDTV prototype shown above for scale.



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AM OLED Panel market in the first quarter is dominated by Korea

Korean companies are dominating AM OLED market that has just been growing. It's because Samsung SDI began mass-producing 4G AM OLED for the first time , preoccupying world market in the second half of last year.

Display Bank (CEO Kwon, Sang-se), a market research company for display, surveyed shipments of AM OLED in the first quarter. The result showed that SDI shipped about 2.56million units, accounting for over 90% of entire market. LG Display produced about 120,000 units. If combining two companies, they accounted for 95% of world AM OLED market in the first quarter.

Especially, the shipment of AM OLED panel for the first quarter already surpassed 2.2million units of total shipment in the last year to reach 2.7million units. That demonstrates AM OLED market has started to mature this year. Among AM OLED set products, mobile phone took 90% of total shipment. In the first quarter, shipment of AM OLED panel for mobile phone recorded 2.4million units. Display Bank predicted that the number will grow to over 3million units in the second quarter.

Samsung SDI supplied AM OLED panel for mobile phone and MP3 player to Samsung Electronics, Kyocera, Iriver, Nokia, Toshiba, Hitachi and Sony Ericson. From this year, it has started to supply panels for digital camera to Samsung Techwin. Among AM OLED panel companies, the company has most corporate clients. LG Display supplied the whole quantity of AM OLED panel for mobile phone to LG Electronics. It is expected that shipment will be monthly average 100,000 units from the second quarter.

Sony that produced AM OLED panel for 11 inch TV from last November remained about 1000 units of shipment. It will focus on panel for TV for the time being.

AM OLED panel for 2 inch mobile phone has been supplied at twice higher price than LCD panel due to low demand but the demand will grow steadily with high quality mobile phone leading the growth. Display Bank predicted that AM OLED panel shipment will reach as many as 4million units in the second quarter.

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