Samsung aims to sell one million 15.6-inch OLED 4K displays for laptops in 2019. Its main customers would be HP, Dell and Lenovo. Production of the slabs has already begun, but with some problems to deal with.
Samsung Display is looking for manufacturers who may be interested in its 15.6-inch OLED 4K laptop screens, Reports Digitimes, citing sources from a Taiwanese supplier. The South Korean group is reportedly testing the ground for HP, Dell and Lenovo, the report said. Samsung’s goal is to equip one million laptops with its screens in 2019.
Samsung wants to democratize 15.6-inch OLED 4K displays for laptops
This is not unattainable according to the publication, which reports that the price of these slabs has recently been reduced. They now represent an extra cost of $50 to $60 per unit compared to more conventional LCD screens. A difference that is more acceptable to manufacturers. Samsung’s technology includes low blue light, a wide angle of vision and integration into a very thin chassis.
Samsung Display unveiled its 15.6″ OLED 4K display in January 2019, on the sidelines of the CES in Las Vegas. This type of product is still uns common and the company intends to change the game and democratize this technology for PCs. With a luminance range ranging from 0.0005 to 600 nits and a dynamic contrast rate of 120,000:1, the blacks in this slab are 200 times deeper than on a standard LCD screen. There is also a gamut of 3.4 million colors.
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Production has already begun, with some failures however, which could result in some delays. Digitimes evokes a distortion of the screen during assembly and problems of integrating the panel into the chassis of laptops. Samsung doesn’t have to drag on too much to fix it, because the competition is there: the Chinese company Everdisplay Technology is also working on 4K OLED screens for the notebook market.
