DuPont announced today that it has signed a technology licensing agreement with a leading Asian manufacturer of Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) display products. The agreement will enable process technology developed by DuPont to be used in the company’s production of large AMOLED television displays. The DuPont AMOLED process technology enables large displays to be produced at significantly lower cost than alternative technologies. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
“AMOLED televisions clearly represent the future. They are preferred by consumers for their superior performance, they are more energy efficient and the process technology we’re licensing allows them to be manufactured much more cost effectively,” said David B. Miller, president, DuPont Electronics & Communications, in the press release. “We look forward to helping make the promise of AMOLED television a commercial reality at a price point that is within reach for the mass consumer market.”
AMOLED displays deliver vivid color, higher contrast, faster response and a wider viewing angle than traditional Liquid Crystal Displays, while consuming less power. AMOLED technology has been well received for small size displays such as in mobile phones, but cost has been a major barrier to the adoption of AMOLED technology for televisions up to this point.
DuPont has developed a proprietary solution-based printing technology that efficiently dispenses liquid OLED materials that it has developed to optimize display yields and performance. The process is designed to significantly cut production costs for television-sized displays when compared to the current methods of producing AMOLED or LCD displays.
“Over the last several years, DuPont has used its substantial resources as a market-driven science company to solve significant technical challenges associated with the cost-effective manufacture of AMOLED displays. As a result, DuPont has developed a unique manufacturing process and innovative materials tailored to work with it,” said William F. Feehery, global business director, DuPont Electronics & Communications, in the press release. “By licensing display manufacturers to make AMOLED displays using DuPont process technology, we will also build a business selling proprietary DuPont OLED materials.”
Based on industry estimates, the AMOLED television market is projected to grow to over $5 billion by 2017.
For more information on DuPont AMOLED technologies, please visit http://oled.dupont.com.
Source: DuPont
MacDailyNews Take: Hmm. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
[Attribution: Engadget. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Me” for the heads up.]
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It does cause one to wonder…
If Apple decides to make a large-secreen iPad-like TV, it will certainly have to be a stunner. This might do nicely…
DuPont is part of the problem.
And what problem is that?
Maybe he’s talking about capitalism, you know, the economic system which done more to bring people out of poverty than anything else.
good one.
I am not saying that capitalism is necessary bad, but there are billions of people who live under capitalism for hundreds of years and they were never even close to coming out of poverty.
However, this might be consequence of combination of factors, rather than purely economic system.
China began transitioning from communism to capitalism in 1978. Today, China’s economy is the second-largest in the world and the standard of living of its citizens has increased by a huge amount from pre-1978 levels.
South Korea’s economy is capitalist, while North Korea’s economy is communist. The standard of living of South Koreans is many times that of North Korea’s citizens.
Pre-1990 West Germany had a largely capitalist economy, while East Germany had a socialist/communist economy. West Germans earned far more than East Germans.
There are many more examples throughout history which demonstrate that standard of livings are higher in market economies than in any of the alternatives. I do not believe that actual historical examples can be provided to demonstrate that “there are billions of people who live under capitalism for hundreds of years and they were never even close to coming out of poverty.” Nations stuck in poverty for long periods almost always lack key prerequisites for ‘capitalism’ — especially an absence of private property rights or a failure to enforce those rights.
And yet the countries that regularly top the league tables for standards of living are very much what people in the US would refer to as “socialist”, namely the Scandinavian nations with their high taxation, tight market regulation and widespread social programs. There’s an ideal balance to be had here, one which sadly the Anglosphere fails to implement.
Pointing to something worse (communism) doesn’t make a bad thing good. It’s dualistic thinking like that that leads us into systems that are far from ideal, and makes us satisfied with them because we only look at what is worse, when we could be imagining something better instead.
Capitalism is really a modern construct, though elements of it have a long heritage. Pre-modern economies tended to be feudal or mercantile, not capitalist. Checks didn’t exist 1,000 years ago, and the first joint-stock companies didn’t appear until maybe 200 years ago.
What *I* find curious about this deal is that Dupont has the technology, but won’t leverage it to manufacture the displays itself; rather, it licenses it to Asian manufacturers. As the US stops making things itself, it’s no surprise its economic standing is weakened.
“By licensing display manufacturers to make AMOLED displays using DuPont process technology, we will also build a business selling proprietary DuPont OLED materials.”
They’re only proprietary until Google figures out how to copy them.
Picture overall quality is better on plasma. In the future, who knows. AMOLED brings low power and weight which are useless to me if they sacrifice any picture quality.
OLED makes LCD look like crap, and even looks better than both plasma and CRT.
However, AMOLED low power claims are marketing.
AMOLED consumes thrice of power needed for LCD in white colour, so it only more effective when it shows black background with very little actual image (hence Android OS themes love black).
Looking at Samsung phones in the store amoled looks like Tim Burton’s alice in wonderland. Crazy colors
Once you use the GS2 phone for a few weeks, EVERY other screen, including most computer screens hurt….. you realize how dull they are… I know that sounds strange and “bratty” but I’m speaking the truth.
You’re right, it sounds strange and “bratty.” It’s like “speaking the truth” that you like speakers where the bass is tuned way up so that you can make your walls rattle. It’s not the most faithful representation of music, and an overly bright display that has phony color representation has the same problem.
This is because AMOLED gives heavily distorted colours — these are oversaturated. Even when the OS/application wants to show some delicate hues, it is impossible on this type of screen — people always get the acid colour.
Who does DuPont sign with ? Sams**g? L?? I wonder
I agree. Proper colour representation is paramount. Perhaps this Dupont technology helps with that as well.
A large portion of the population love AMOLED in their smartphones for the “vivid” colours, and very often those are not natural colours. Multiply that colour misrepresentation to a 40 to 60 inch TV and I think I’d throw up.
I still prefer plasma, LED LCD’s are getting pretty good, but I have yet to see an AMOLED panel at any size that has proper, natural colours, except perhaps… black.
But technology marches on and 5 years down the road we may all be watching AMOLED TVs. We’ll see.
History attests that we do not get things right the first time. Computers, Mp3’s, TV’s or just anything , improvements are incremental!!!
Re MDN Take….
Are you saying this is somehow linked with Apple’s TV plans (unverified)?