The "2017 China Display Industry Development White Paper" released by the China Intelligent Display Innovation Conference held in Wuhan shows that by 2020, the global AMOLED screen panel market pattern that has been firmly occupied by South Korea's Samsung will undergo major changes, "China made" flexible screen. Will occupy 25% of the market share.
Flexible screen, also known as OLED, is the highest-end product of smart phones. Compared with traditional LCD screens, flexible screens have low power consumption, high brightness, rich colors, thinner and lighter, and can be bent. BOE Vice President Yuan Zhen said that the gross profit margin of mainstream products declined, indicating that products must be transformed and upgraded, and flexibility is the mainstream of the future.
In the field of flexible screen production, South Korea's Samsung has been the only one in recent years: Samsung accounted for 99% of the global AMOLED screen panel shipments in 2016, although China produces 90% of the world's mobile phones, 80% of the calculators, and 70% of the TV sets. However, in this field of display industry targeting the future, the market space left for China is very small.
5G communication will achieve large-scale commercial use in 2020, and the intelligent display industry has become an important support and foundation for the technological revolution carrying intelligent hardware, Internet of Things and virtual reality. China's high-end display giant is in Wuhan. In April this year, Tianma's flexible screen production line in Wuhan will light up, and mass production will be carried out in 2018; Wuhan Huaxing t4 project is China's first 6th generation flexible LTPS-AMOLED with main display and folding display. Display panel production line, it is expected that the main plant will be capped in advance at the end of the year, and mass production will be realized in 2020; BOE will construct a 10.5-generation line and related supporting projects in Wuhan to fill the gap in Wuhan's large-size panel field.
According to the data, in the third quarter of this year, BOE's large-size panel production ranked first in the world. The 2017 China Display Industry Development White Paper predicts that with the new mass production of AMOLEDs, such as Huaxing Optoelectronics, BOE, and Tianma, the “Made in China” flexible screen will break through less than 1% of the market space by 2020. 25%.