TAIPEI, Taiwan — EverDisplay Optronics (EDO) debuted its HD and FHD active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) panels in Taiwan, aiming at wearables, smartphones, and automotive industry. The company will also start making large panels (5.6-inch, FHD) in February 2015 and smaller 1.63-inch (320x320) ones in the second quarter of 2015.
Austin Jwo, Head of sales & marketing of EDO, said that the company started mass producing 5-inch 720p AMOLED displays with a capacity of 600 thousand panels per month. He forecast their near-future AMOLED roadmap as it aims to start making 5.6-inch FHD panels in February 2015 and smaller 1.63-inch (320x320) ones in the second quarter of 2015.
“There are some more panels underway. First up will be a circular 1.35-inch panel for smartwatches, and it will also be released in the second quarter of 2015. Further down the road EDO plans a 6-inch WQHD (2560x1440 489 PPI) and a 5-inch FHD panel.” said Austin Jwo.
However, EDO started mass producing 5-inch 720p (293 PPI) AMOLED panels for mobile phones, and they already have their first customer, a Chinese handset maker, the first phone to use EDO's OLEDs already launched lately.
Austin Jwo stated that the company is currently producing 600 thousand 5-inch panels a month at their 4.5-Gen LTPS fab. The fab is not running in full capacity yet, which is 15 thousand monthly substrates, and EDO expects to increase production to a million 5-inch panels by the end of 2014, and to ramp up the monthly substrates into 21 thousand.
According to EDO, the company's 2015 roadmap is going to mass produce the round type flexible AMOLED panel in the second quarter, while the WQHD smartphones in the third quarter, and the FHD automotive industry in the fourth quarter.
EDO, established in Shanghai, China in October 2012 aims to establish China's first AMOLED LTPS production facility. The company started producing samples in mid-2014 and reached mass production by the end of 2014, which capacity will be 15 thousand monthly substrate and the focus is on small and medium size panels.
The company also plans to research and develop next-generation display technology such as flexible displays.
