Samsung To Put Out An Oled Tablet

Samsung is currently finishing building a 5.5 generation OLED factory. It will be outputting OLED screens as of mid-2011 for mobiles... and tablets!

The factory will produce 70,000 1.3 x 1.5 metre panels each month, or 840,000 a year when production is fully ramped up. These large panels will then, according to our calculations, be cut down into 300 million 4.3 inch screens.


For information, the most popular product with an OLED screen is currently the Galaxy S (5 star rating), 10 million of which have been sold by Samsung. We can expect an avalanche of products with OLED screens over the next few years.

In fact, the 70,000 panels produced monthly won't all be converted into smaller 3 to 5 inch screens. Samsung is also planning an OLED tablet - a 7 inch model apparently. Seeing as production will start in July and will gradually ramp up, we can reasonably expect this OLED tablet to be unveiled at CES or MWC in January or February 2012.

Samsung presented a prototype of a 7 inch OLED in 2010 so this timetable is no great surprise. The prototype had a 1200 x 600 pixel screen (instead of 1024 x 600 pixels on the current Galaxy Tab).

The iPhone 6, an OLED in 2012?

Rumours have also been circulating connecting Apple with OLED screens for its products in 2012. By then, OLED screen production may well be able to satisfy Apple demand. They wouldn't necessarily be using Samsung screens as LG should also be producing OLED panels in sufficient numbers by then, in addition to Universal Displays.

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