As OLED technology rapidly expands across devices—from smartphones and tablets to MR headsets and upcoming notebooks—leading players like Samsung and Apple are accelerating its adoption to drive premium user experiences. Apple’s OLED roadmap reveals significant milestones, including full LTPO adoption by 2025 and advanced under-display technologies by 2028. The small OLED market continues its strong growth, with 2025 smartphone shipments projected to exceed 900 million units with China poised to lead in production and Korea maintaining revenue dominance. Meanwhile, mid-to-large OLED demand is increasingly driven by tablets, though OLED TV growth remains limited.
In contrast, Micro-LED is targeting ultra-high-end segments such as large-format displays and AR applications. However, manufacturing hurdles—particularly in yield and cost—remain critical challenges. This session provides a comprehensive overview of current OLED market dynamics and the strategic hurdles facing Micro-
LED, offering insight into how next-generation display technologies will shape the future of consumer electronics.
 
Changwook Han | Principal Analyst and Executive Vice President, UBI Research

As flexible OLED panels from Korea and China's Gen 6 generation fabs mature and the industry approaches the Gen 8.6, OLED is poised to enter a new phase of competition with LCD across various applications.
In 2026, Apple will join the market by launching new foldable phones featuring flexible OLED panels, which will be a key move to enhance OLED as a unique selling point in the smartphone market. With the support of new generation production lines, OLED's reach will further extend into mid-sized notebook products, potentially repeating its past success of replacing LCDs in the smartphone market, thus establishing another solid outlet for OLED.
In the TV market, OLED is under heavy attack from ultra-large-sized LCDs and Mini LED backlighting, casting doubts on its future prospects.
However, by shifting production capacity to monitors and solidifying its presence in the high-end and gaming markets, OLED products could find another niche segment.
In addition to encroaching on various application markets traditionally dominated by LCD technology, new technologies and materials are also areas of significant interest for current OLED development. TrendForce, from the perspective of a third-party market research organization, will provide you with comprehensive market dynamics and technology development trend analysis.
 
Eric Chiou | Senior Research Vice President, TrendForce

Quantum Dot Light Emitting Diode (QLED) is one of the most promising nextgeneration display technology, which shows wide color gamut, high efficiency, long lifetime, and low-cost manufacturing process compared with the widely used LCD or OLED. However, due to the characteristics of quantum dots, solution-based process such as inkjet printing, photolithography, or transfer printing must be adopted to realize the full-color patterning of QD layers in the panel. Furthermore, the large-area nanoscale uniform fabrication of each functional thin layer of device is another main challenge for the mass production of QLED displays. After years of iterative trial and error, the direct photolithography based on the slit-coating thin film is the current main technology pathway in BOE. In this talk, I will present some of our latest advances, including slit-coating, exposure, development, and give an introduction about our 7.9-inch 560 ppi fullcolor AMQLED display prototype.
 
Dr. Yang Gao | BOE Senior Researcher, Central Research Institute , BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.

Dr. Longjia Wu | Materials Development Expert, TCL Corporate Research

As OLED display technology advances, traditional manufacturing processes struggle to maintain efficiency, safety, and accuracy. This study explores the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize both the design and production phases. 
First, we address the limitations of TSP (Touch Screen Panel) sensitivity simulation by introducing a convolutional neural network (CNN)–based prediction model. By automating pattern generation and leveraging a large-scale training dataset, we achieved a sensitivity prediction accuracy of 99%, significantly reducing the need for time-intensive electromagnetic simulations. 
Second, we improve CD (Critical Dimension) measurement by replacing real-image workflows with AI-generated virtual images using neural style transfer techniques. Additionally, a deep learning–based measurement system enables accurate ob-ject segmentation and panel inspection with enhanced speed and safety. Combined, these technologies offer a scalable, cost-effective, and precise manufacturing solution, paving the way for end-to-end AI-driven automation in OLED production.
Dr. Hyun Sung Park | Principal Engineer, Samsung Display

Canon Tokki developed the world's first OLED mass production equipment in 1999 and has been manufacturing it for over 20 years.

In this presentation, we will explain the latest equipment status, including G6H, G8H, and  Φ300 equipment.

Eiichi Matsumoto | Chief, N Project, Canon Tokki Corporation

ViP (Visionox Intelligent Pixelization) Technology represents a promising maskless approach for OLED manufacturing based on photolithography. This innovation eliminates the use of Fine Metal Masks (FMM), thereby removing inherent process limitations related to product size, PPI (Pixels Per Inch), and aperture ratio. Consequently, it unlocks the intrinsic potential of OLED technology, delivering significant enhancements in brightness, efficiency, lifespan, and reliability. Visionox has validated this technology across multiple product form factors, completing mass-production development for diverse applications. Commercial rollout will align with customer launch schedules. This paper details technological advancements and explores future applications in Gen 8 production lines.
Dr. Yiming Xiao | R&D Director, Visionox Technology Inc.

In recent years, OLED display panels have accelerated their penetration in large, medium and small sizes such as mobile phones, wearables, computers, tablets, and TVs. TCL CSOT has focused on the research of inkjet printing (IJP) OLED display technology for over 10 years, which overcome various technical challenges and produced remarkable medium and large-size OLED prototypes. In 2024, TCL CSOT has announced its first mass produced IJP OLED product, demonstrating the breakthrough of mass manufacturing for IJP OLED technology.
Unlike the traditional methods that rely on complex shadow masks and high-temperature vacuum deposition, IJP OLED technology offers transformative advantages over conventional OLEDs manufacturing, making it a promising solution for next-generation displays. This innovative technology enables simpler processing, high-resolution patterning, and lower manufacturing costs thanks to higher material utilization rate. Furthermore, IJP OLED technology demonstrates the compatibility with flexible and stretchable substrates, and scalability for large displays. As an emerging fabrication technique, IJP OLED remains under active research and development to further optimize its performance.
Currently, TCL CSOT focuses on improving material stability, inkjet printing precision, and device lifetime to meet commercial standards. Looking ahead, the future of IJP OLED is promising. As the demand for flexible and cost-effective displays grows, CSOT is poised to accelerate IJP OLED commercialization and would adapt the trend of display products to continuously develop towards higher performance.
 
Weiran Cao | Center General Manager, IJP OLED Center, TCL CSOT

Kateeva's Technology Vice President, Chris Hauf, will discuss the latest advancements in applying inkjet printing to a variety of steps in the display manufacturing process and beyond. On substrates from 200mm/300mm silicon wafers to Gen 8.5 glass, inkjet technology has been used to deposit a wide range of materials in numerous ways from generating films of varying thicknesses to creating intricate patterns and precise in-pixel deposition while meeting the high throughput demands of mass production. This talk will cover how inkjet printing continues to solve both current and future challenges in display manufacturing and beyond
Christopher R. Hauf | Vice President of Technology, Kateeva

The conventional FMM evaporation technology will give no mass production of ultra-high resolution OLEDoS because it provides that a vapor angle of 56° and the followed 4.1um shadow distance gives a limited ppi numbers of 600 at the reasonable TS distances. So, the new concept evaporation technology for ultra-high resolution is needed to give the ideal 0° vapor angle and sub-micron meter shadow distance. Also, an ultra-highresolution FMM and ultra-high-resolution vision aligner should be developed for the mass production of 10,000ppi RGB OLEDoS which will be for the success of XR industry.
 
Chriss Changhun Hwang | CTO & Founder , OLEDON