Samsung to Cease Traditional LCD Production, Move To Quantum Dot OLEDs
According to a report from Reuters, Samsung Display will cease production of traditional LCD displays by the end of the year. The move comes as the company is apparently turning its full efforts away from traditional liquid crystal displays and towards the company's portfolio of quantum dot technology. Building off of the Reuters report, ZDNet is reporting that Samsung is dropping LCD production entirely – including its quantum dot-enhanced "QLED" LCDs – and that their retooled efforts will focus on QD-enhanced OLED displays. A decision with big ramifications for the traditional LCD market, this means that by the end of the year, the LCD market will be losing one of its bigger (and best-known) manufacturers.
As recently as last year, Samsung Display had two LCD production facilities in South Korea and another two LCD plants in China. Back in October, 2019, the company halted production [in] one of the South Korean factories, and now plans to suspend production of LCDs at the remaining three facilities due to the low profitability and oversupply of traditional LCDs.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Immerman on Friday April 03 2020, @03:39AM
You've got to fiddle with the LCD's quantum interferometer to make the differences properly visible. :-D
In all seriousness though: QLED/OLED are two *completely* different tehnologies, with QLED apparently named specifically to exploit confusion.
OLED - uses separate Organic LEDs for each pixel, so that the light can be completely independently adjusted for each pixel, allowing for "perfect" deep blacks and eliminating the many artifacts introduced by "cross-bleed" of light between an LCD subpixels and the color filters
QLED - in contrast is often just an ordinary LCD with a layer of quantum dots added to "tune" the colors to be more consistent and vibrant (though to confuse things there are also electroluminescent QLED screens that actually are more visually similar to OLED)