OLED Tablets - Introduction and Latest Industry News

LG Display is showcasing a wide range of OLED displays and prototypes at SID Displayweek 2026. In this article we detail the most interesting demonstrations and technologies.

First up, is LG's 3rd-Gen Tandem OLED, these are AMOLED displays, aimed towards the automotive market. LG says that it has introduced two new technologies into its tandem stack - a deep-blue dopant and optimized hole and electron movement. It isn't clear exactly what LG refers to, but it does say that these new technologies enable tandem OLEDs with improved power consumption (18%), brightness (1,200 nits), lifetime (over 15,000 hours) and color purity and reproduction. 

Market research firm Counterpoint says that following the spike in memory prices, it revised down its forecast for the OLED industry in 2026, as it now sees smartphone OLED panel shipments declining 3% in 2026. We have heard this before from Omdia a couple of months ago.

Following a 3% increase in global OLED panel shipments in 2025, Coiunterpoint says that the market will remain flat in 2026, as automotive and IT OLED shipments will increase and offset the decline lin smartphone OLEDs. 

Last year, we reported that LG Display is looking into adopting Japan Display's eLEAP technology at its OLED TV production lines in Paju, perhaps seeking to produce RGB AMOLED displays for IT applications at these fabs that are currently under utilized.

Today we hear that LG Display is now progressing with this plan, and is checking an investment plan to apply eLEAP into its large-area OLED production lines. 

A few weeks ago we reported that Samsung Display may be delaying the A6 8.6-Gen ramp up, following some technical challenges - and demand concerns. Today it is reported that say that this it not the case - SDC actually managed to achieve yields of over 80%, and is on track to start full mass production by June 2026. 

According to what we know, the first products out of the new line will be laptop AMOLED panels that will go to Apple - that signed an exclusive supply agreement with Samsung Display to produce touch AMOLED displays for its upcoming 2026 MacBook Pro laptops (both 14-inch and 16-inch models). 

BOE's Chairman Chen Yanshun provided some interesting information in a recent investor communication event, providing an update and outlook for the company's OLED business.

BOE updates that it shipped around 150 million AMOLED display in 2025, a growth of 8% over 2024. This is below BOE's original expectations, and the company gives three reasons for the lower shipments in 2025: patent disputes in the AMOLED field, limited coverage of national subsidies (most Chinese phone subsidies cover only budget smartphones), and the need for improvement in internal lean management.

UBI Research says that medium and large OLED display panel revenue will reach $11.5 billion in 2026, and will grow to $20 billion by 2030, a CAGR of 14.8%. These displays are utilized in tablets, monitors, laptops and automotive applications, mostly (this category for UBI does not include TV panels).

UBI says that the main driver for increased sales will be the monitor market, where OLED panels will grab a market share of 26% of the total medium and large OLED market (not the total monitor display market).

Two days ago we reported that Samsung Display has began trial production of laptop AMOLED displays at its A6 site, and has already achieved yields of over 70%, and is close to achieve over 80% yields soon. That report was optimistic, saying that SDC is on track to begin full scale mass production by May 2026.

There are reports from Korea today, that Samsung may be delaying the A6 ramp up, citing some interesting information about technical issues, but also market concerns. We detail it below.

Bloomberg is claiming that Apple is developing a large foldable iPad, one that features a 18-inch display when fully open. While this is an exciting project, Bloomberg's report says that there are many technical challenges, and the plan is to release it in 2029 - and the project will likely to be cancelled soon.

There are also other reports that Apple is developing a smaller folding tablet, that may replace the iPad mini. But there are not many details there, yet.

The OLED's industry main new target, for the past several years, has been the IT display sector, mainly tablets, laptops and monitors. While we have seen OLED displays penetrate this market many years ago, the current 6-Gen AMOLED production lines are optimized for smartphone and wearable display production.

A few years ago display makers realized that OLED production lines with larger substrates will enable lower cost production, and will enable to increase the adoption of OLEDs in such devices. When this converged with technology readiness , several companies initiated new projects, all of which use 8.6-Gen (2250 x 2600 mm) substrates. In this article, we detail all four 8.6-Gen OLED production lines that are currently being built - by Samsung Display, BOE, TCL CSOT and Visionox. We also other display makers and how likely they are of launching large-scale 8.6-Gen lines as well. Finally, we see how these new lines will effect the entire OLED industry, whether it is likely we'll see new lines (do we actually need all that added capacity?) and what we expect to happen next.

Samsung Display will reportedly initiate mass production at its new 8.6-Gen IT production line in Asan in May 2026 - a few months ahead of schedule. Last month we reported that SDC has verified mass production at the fab, and has shipped the samples to potential customers (laptop makers). 

According to what we know, the first products out of the new line will be laptop AMOLED panels that will go to Apple - that signed an exclusive supply agreement with Samsung Display to produce touch AMOLED displays for its upcoming 2026 MacBook Pro laptops (both 14-inch and 16-inch models).