- BOE has started mass production at its huge new factory in China
- It’s cranking out OLED panels for use in monitors, laptops and other devices
- These OLEDs will be more affordable, and provide competition to drive down pricing with the dominant players, LG and Samsung
In a move that’s set to usher in more affordable OLED monitors and laptops, BOE has officially flicked the switch to crank the production lines into action for its Generation 8.6 panels.
The Elec reports that mass production of Generation 8.6 OLEDs began this week at BOE over in China, with the manufacturer holding an event in Chengdu to celebrate the milestone.
This was attended by some notably major laptop and monitor players, including Asus, Lenovo and MSI. As you might guess, big names from the smartphone world were present too, with Honor, Nothing, Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi and ZTE among them.
Chen Yanshun, chairman of BOE, said: “We will meet the growing demand for premium displays from customers in China and overseas and become a trusted partner through advanced technologies and high-quality products.”
The factory is capable of producing 32,000 substrates per month, were are large slabs of glass that are cut into multiple individual OLED panels.
Wondering what the first product off the assembly line was? The Elec informs us that it was a 14-inch OLED for Lenovo notebooks with a 2.8K resolution (as shown above).
Analysis: competition for LG and Samsung
What’s the big deal about BOE’s new Generation 8.6 panels? This tech allows for the production of much larger substrates than before, and that means a lot more OLED screens can be cut out of that big sheet, with less overall waste (the extraneous bits around the edges). Therefore, production is more economical, and the cost of the OLED panel is decreased, with that saving passed on to the manufacturer and consumer in…
