Display panel manufacturers are companies that are able to produce the cell structures needed in OLED and LCD displays. Not monitor or TV manufacturers.
For LCD displays, the cell includes a front layer with contrast coating, a polarizing film, color, liquid crystals, a thin-film transistor (TFT), and a polarizing film.
For OLED displays, the cell includes a front layer with contrast coating, color filters, OLED panel, and substrate.
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cell of lcd and oled, only few big manufacturers can make it
In both LCD and OLED displays, producing these cells &#; which are highly complex &#; is by far the most difficult element of the production process. Indeed, the complexity of these cells, combined with the levels of investment needed to achieve expertise in their production, explains why there are less than 30 companies in the whole world that can produce them. China, for instance, has invested more than 300 billion yuan (approximately $45 billion USD) in just one of these companies &#; BOE &#; over the past 14 years.
manufacturing of LCD/OLED cell
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The following are the biggest OLED and LCD manufacturers in the world:
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1. BOE
Established in April , BOE is the biggest OLED/LCD panel manufacturer in the world and can make all kinds of displays ranging from 0.39-inch x micro-OLED panels to 110-inch x LCD panels, as well as flexible and transparent displays.
In , BOE continued to rank first in the world in five application fields: mobile phones, tablet computers, laptop computers, displays, and TVs. In addition, its AMOLED display output exceeded 10 million units per month for the first time in December , a milestone development for both the company and the industry as a whole.
2. LG Display
LG Display was, until , the No. 1 display panel manufacturer in the world. Owned by LG Group and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, it has R&D, production, and trade institutions in China, Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Europe.
LG Display&#;s customers include Apple, HP, Dell, Sony, Toshiba, Philips, Lenovo, Acer, and other world-class consumer electronics manufacturers.
LG's production base in China is in Nanjing, Shenyang.
3. AUO (AU Optronics)
Founded in , AUO &#; or AU Optronics &#; is the world&#;s leading TFT-LCD panel manufacturer (with a 16% market share) that designs, develops, and manufactures the world&#;s top three liquid crystal displays. With panels ranging from as small as 1.5 inches to 46 inches, it boasts one of the world's few large-, medium -and small-sized product lines.
AUO is also the world's first TFT-LCD design, manufacture, and R&D company to be publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
AUO offers advanced display integration solutions with innovative technologies, including 4K2K ultra-high resolution, 3D, ultra-thin, narrow bezel, transparent display, LTPS, OLED, and touch solutions. AOU has the most complete generation production line, ranging from 3.5G to 8.5G, offering panel products for a variety of LCD applications in a range of sizes, from as small as 1.2 inches to 71 inches.
4. Sharp
Sharp is the inventor of the LCD screen.
Now Sharp is still top 10 TV brands all over the world. Just like BOE, Sharp produce LCDs in all kinds of size. Including small LCD (3.5 inch~9.1 inch), medium LCD (10.1 ~27 inch), large LCD (31.5~110 inch). Sharp LCD has been used on Iphone series for a long time.
Beside those current LCDs, the industrial LCD of Sharp is also excellent and widely used in public facilities, factories, and vehicles. The Sharp industrial LCD, just means solid, high brightness, super long working time, highest stability.
Memory LCD from Sharp is a unique display panel with low consumption, readable under the sun.
5. Truly Semiconductors
Truly Semiconductors is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hong Kong-listed company Truly International Holdings. Founded in , and headquartered in Hong Kong, the company&#;s production base is located in the beautiful coastal city of Shanwei City in Guangdong Province, China.
Since its establishment, Truly Semiconductors has focused on researching, developing, and manufacturing liquid crystal flat panel displays. Now, after twenty years of development, it is the biggest small- and medium-sized flat panel display manufacturer in China.
Truly&#;s factory in Shanwei City is enormous, covering an area of 1 million square meters, with a net housing area of more than 100,000 square meters. It includes five LCD production lines, one OLED production line, three touch screen production lines, and several COG, LCM, MDS, CCM, TAB, and SMT production lines.
Its world-class production lines produce LCD displays, liquid crystal display modules (LCMs), OLED displays, resistive and capacitive touch screens (touch panels), micro camera modules (CCMs), and GPS receiving modules, with such products widely used in the smartphone, automobile, and medical industries. The LCD products it offers include TFT, TN, Color TN with Black Mark (TN type LCD display for onboard machines), STN, FSTN, 65K color, and 262K color or above CSTN, COG, COF, and TAB modules.
6. Innolux
Innolux carries out production and sales operations in a one-stop manner, providing its global customer base with comprehensive solutions.
In its early days, Innolux attached great importance to researching and developing new products. Mobile phones, portable and mounted DVD players, digital cameras, games consoles, PDA LCDs, and other star products were put into mass production and quickly captured the market, winning the company considerable market share.
Looking forward to the future, the group of photoelectric will continue to deep LCD display field, is committed to the development of plane display core technology, make good use of global operations mechanism and depth of division of labor, promise customers high-quality products and services, become the world's top display system suppliers, in in the global mobile color display market leader, become "Foxconn technology" future sustained rapid growth of the engine.
7. Hannstar
Founded in June , Hannstar specializes in producing thin-film transistor liquid crystal display panels, mainly for use in monitors, notebook displays and televisions. It was the first company in Taiwan to adopt the world&#;s top ultra-wide perspective technology (AS-IPS).
The company has three LCD factories and one LCM factory. It has acquired state-of-the-art TFT-LCD manufacturing technology, which enables it to achieve the highest efficiency in the mass production of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display production technology. Its customers include many of the biggest and most well-known electronics companies and computer manufacturers in Taiwan and overseas.
In , it signed an IPS patent authorization contract with Hitachi of Japan and started to plan a 5th-generation plant to make the product line more complete and meet the needs of different customers.
8. Visionox
On October 8, , Visionox opened the first mass OLED production line on the Chinese mainland, with a focus on PMOLED manufacturing.
GVO &#; a sub-company of Visionox &#; is set to produce AMOLED displays for use in the mobile industry.
9. TCL CSOT (TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology)
TCL CSOT &#; short for TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology (TCL CSOT) &#; was founded in and is an innovative technology enterprise that focuses on the production of semiconductor displays. As one of the global leaders in semiconductor display market, it has bases in Shenzhen, Wuhan, Huizhou, Suzhou, Guangzhou, and India, with nine panel production lines and five large modules bases.
TCL CSOT actively produces Mini LED, Micro LED, flexible OLED, printing OLED, and other new display technologies. Its product range is vast &#; including large, medium, and small panels and touch modules, electronic whiteboards, splicing walls, automotive displays, gaming monitors, and other high-end display application fields &#; which has enabled it to become a leading player in the global panel industry.
In the first quarter of , TCL CSOT&#;s TV panels ranked second in the market, 55 inches, 65 " and 75 inches second, 8K, 120Hz first, the first, interactive whiteboard and digital sign plate; LTPS flat panel, the second, LTPS and flexible OLED fourth.
10. EDO (EverDisplay Optronics)
EDO (also known as EverDisplay Optonics) was founded in October and focuses on the production of small- and medium-sized high-resolution AMOLED semiconductor display panels.
The company opened its first production line &#; a 4.5-generation low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) AMOLED mass production line &#; in , which started mass producing AMOLED displays in November .
In order to ramp up production output, the company began construction of a 6th-generation AMOLED production line in December , with a total investment of 27.3 billion yuan (almost $4 billion USD). The line, which has a production capacity of 30,000 glass substrates per month, produces flexible and rigid high-end AMOLED displays for use in smartphones, tablet pens, vehicle displays, and wearable devices.
11. Tianma Microelectronics
Tianma Microelectronics was founded in and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in . It is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the production of liquid crystal displays (LCD) and liquid crystal display modules (LCM).
After more than 30 years of development, it has grown into a large publicly listed company integrating LCD research and development, design, production, sales, and servicing. Over the years, it has expanded by investing in the construction of STN-LCD, CSTN-LCD, TFT-LCD and CF production lines and module factories across China (with locations in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Chengdu, Wuhan and Xiamen), as well R&D centers and offices in Europe, Japan, South Korea and the United States.
The company's marketing network is all over the world, and its products are widely used in mobile phones, MP3/MP4 players, vehicle displays, instrumentation, household appliances, and other fields. In terms of technical level, product quality, product grade, and market share, it ranks at the forefront of the domestic industry and has become a leading enterprise in the field of small- and medium-sized displays.
12. JDI (Japan Display Inc.)
JDI (Japan Display Inc.) was established on November 15, , as a joint venture between the Industrial Innovation Corporation, Sony, Hitachi, and Toshiba. It is dedicated to the production and development of small-sized displays. It mainly produces small- and medium-sized LCD display panels for use in the automotive, medical, and industrial fields, as well as personal devices including smartphones, tablets, and wearables.
13. Sony
Although Sony&#;s TVs use display panels from TCL CSOT (VA panel), Samsung. Sony still produces the world&#;s best micro-OLED display panels. Sony has many micro OLED model such as 0.23 inch, 0.39 inch, 0.5 inch, 0.64 inch, 0.68 inch, 0.71 inch. Panox Display used to test and sell many of them, compare to other micro OLED manufacuturers, Sony`s micro OLEDs are with the best image quality and highest brightness ( nits max).
When it comes to buying one of the best OLED TVs, there&#;s really just three brands to choose from: LG, Sony and Samsung. There are other brands with OLED offerings &#; the Vizio OLED TV, which came out in , was even great value &#; but at this point, your best options are always going to be an LG, Sony or Samsung OLED TV.
However, once you settle on those three brands, it can be really difficult to chose. Each manufacturer has their own things they do really well, and other things where their OLED TVs fall short. Further complicating things, LG Display and Samsung Display both make OLED displays for Sony and Samsung OLED TVs &#; only LG makes 100% of its own OLED display panels.
So which one should you buy? Let&#;s break down all three brands and then see if there&#;s a clear OLED TV brand that makes the best OLED TV.
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LG may be the easiest of the three OLED TV manufacturers to break down. First, it sources all of its OLED display panels through its LG Display sibling corporation, so all of its offerings use the same display technology &#; WOLED.
WOLED, or white OLED, refers to the white subpixel that LG uses in its OLED displays. In traditional OLED displays, there are only three subpixels: red, green and blue. Because LG adds in the fourth white subpixel, LG claims that its displays are superior when it comes to burn-in.
However, as we found in the LG C3 OLED, which is LG&#;s mid-range OLED TV, that WOLED display tech can occasionally have drawbacks. Namely, they fall short of the offerings from Sony and Samsung when it comes to brightness and color accuracy.
But while the LG displays occasionally fall short of the competition in technical testing, they excel in value. The LG C3 OLED TV is $600 less than the list price of our top picks from Sony and Samsung, and comes with an easy to use smart interface and loaded with features. Plus, the picture quality is still excellent.
And if you want to upgrade your brightness you can get the LG G3 OLED for the same price as the Sony and Samsung flagship OLED TVs. The only catch with that one is that you have to wall mount it with a proprietary wall mount (there&#;s no stand either) and in terms of value it doesn&#;t quite give you as much as the C-series OLED TVs.
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Despite being the only one of these three brands not to make its own display panels, Sony has somehow managed to make a better OLED TV than either LG or Samsung.
That&#;s right, the best OLED TV we&#;ve ever tested isn&#;t made by either LG or Samsung &#; it&#;s the Sony Bravia XR A95K OLED TV. The Sony A95K OLED TV has incredible brightness thanks to its QD-OLED display that&#;s manufactured by Samsung Display. Unlike the LG WOLED display panels, these are traditional RGB OLED panels that feature just red, green and blue subpixels.
But that choice has its benefits. First, the Samsung QD-OLED displays are typically brighter than the LG competitors, and the Sony Bravia XR A95K OLED TV is one of the brightest OLED TVs we&#;ve ever seen. Plus, the &#;QD&#; in QD-OLED stands for Quantum Dot, which is the filter that Samsung overlays on its OLED displays for superior color accuracy at all angles. And on the Sony flagship, the Samsung Display QD-OLED panels benefits truly shine.
Unfortunately, Sony&#;s lower-tier models don&#;t excel quite so much. The Sony Bravia XR A80L OLED TV is a great mid-tier option, but it doesn&#;t get the QD-OLED treatment that the A95K gets. In fact, it uses an LG Display WOLED panel, and while those are still good display panels, the Sony version of the LG Display WOLED panel falls short the display panel on the LG C3 OLED in our technical testing. So while Sony makes the ultimate OLED TV, it&#;s not unequivocally the ultimate OLED TV maker.
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So, if Samsung makes QD-OLED displays, and (burn-in concerns aside) we find those superior in our technical testing, Samsung has to be the best TV maker. Right?
Wrong.
Yes, the Samsung OLED TVs are great. We even rate the Samsung S95C OLED TV higher than the LG C3 OLED, giving it five stars thanks to its impressive gaming features and stunning brightness. And of course, it reaps the benefits of QD-OLED displays in terms of color accuracy.
But outside of this flagship TV, things are getting complicated for Samsung. While its QD-OLED TVs are excellent, its going to start outsourcing some of its display production to &#; you guessed it &#; LG Display. These will, of course, be WOLED display panels and as we&#;ve seen with Sony WOLED TVs, I don&#;t expect that Samsung&#;s mid-range OLED TVs will surpass the LG mid-range offerings as long as they are using LG Display OLED panels.
Even worse, Samsung&#;s flagship S95C QD-OLED TV has come under fire recently. Samsung and Best Buy are facing a class action lawsuit that accuses both companies of misrepresenting the feature set of Samsung&#;s TVs, including the Samsung S95C OLED. Specifically, the misrepresented the Motion Xcelerator Turbo+, FreeSync and/or HDMI 2.1 features of the Samsung TVs.
And unfortunately, some outside testing has potentially given credence to these claims. A prominent TV reviewer, Vincent Teoh of HDTV Test, called out Samsung for misrepresenting some features on the Samsung S95C OLED TV. Specifically, the OneConnect Box is limited to a 40Gbps speed, and therefore can&#;t actually handle 4K/144Hz gaming, which requires speeds of up to 48Gbps. Samsung argues that with the use of Display Stream Compression, the S95C can handle 4K resolution at a 144Hz refresh rate.
These allegations might paint a pretty damning picture, but put them aside for a minute and it's easy to be impressed with the S95C OLED. In our tests, the Samsung S95C was able to hit 626. nits in SDR and . nits in HDR, making it one of the brightest OLED TVs we've yet to see. Tack on some great gaming features, its One Connect Box for cable management and its smart home connectivity, and you'll see that the S95C OLED is an all-rounder.
After hashing it all out, there are two clear winners and one runner-up.
If you want great value, the mid-tier LG C3 OLED TV is probably the best choice. It&#;s picture quality and brightness don&#;t quite match the Sony or Samsung QD-OLED TVs, but it&#;s still excellent despite being hundreds of dollars cheaper. And if you can still get last year&#;s LG C2 OLED TV, you can get a great OLED for even less. It&#;s still one of the best TVs we&#;ve ever reviewed.
But if you need the ultimate OLED TV, just get the Sony Bravia XR A95K OLED TV. What Sony has done by combining the Samsung QD-OLED panel with its own first-party features and Google TV smart TV platform make the best OLED TV you can buy right now. But if you don&#;t feel like spending up for the A95K, opt for an LG instead.
Unfortunately, that leaves us with Samsung. It&#;s important to note here that Samsung does make an excellent OLED TV. I&#;m not saying it doesn&#;t. But it&#;s flagship S95C OLED TV falls just short of the Sony A95K and isn&#;t as good value as the LG C-series OLED TVs. Add in the looming legal issues and its tough to recommend a Samsung OLED TV over a high-end Sony OLED TV or a mid-tier LG OLED TV.
We recommend continuing to read more about the Samsung S95C &#; and the new lower-priced Samsung S90C OLED &#; before making a buying decision, but if you want our two cents, the LG and Sony offer great performance without any caveats.
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