List of flat panel display manufacturers
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Flat-panel displays are thin panels of glass or plastic used for electronically displaying text, images, or video. Liquid crystal displays (LCD), OLED (organic light emitting diode) and microLED displays are different kinds of flat panel displays. This is a list of display manufacturers that own and operate cleanroom facilities and specialized equipment for making flat panel displays, including LCD, OLED and microLED displays.
LCD uses a liquid crystal that reacts to an electric current blocking light or allowing it to pass through the panel, whereas OLED/microLED displays consist of electroluminescent organic/inorganic materials that generate light when a current is passed through the material.
LCD, OLED and microLED displays are driven using LTPS, IGZO, LTPO, and A-Si TFT transistor technologies as their backplane using ITO to supply current to the transistors and in turn to the liquid crystal or electroluminescent material. Segment and passive OLED and LC displays (LCDs) do not use a backplane but use indium tin oxide (ITO), a transparent conductive material, to pass current to the electroluminescent material or liquid crystal.
LCD panel manufacturers
Liquid-crystal display (or LCD) is a thin, flat panel used for electronically displaying information such as text, images, and moving pictures. They are usually made of glass but they can also be made out of plastic. Some manufacturers make transparent LCD panels and special sequential color segment LCDs that have higher than usual refresh rates and an RGB backlight. The backlight is synchronized with the display so that the colors will show up as needed. The list of LCD manufacturers:
AUO
BOE (bought Hydis)
Casio (former)[1]- ChiMei former, merged with Innolux)
- Chunghwa Picture Tubes
- Giantplus technology
- HannStar Display Corporation
- HEM[2]
- Hitachi (former, merged with Japan Display alongside Sony and Toshiba)
- HKC
- InnoLux Corporation
- Japan Display
- Kyocera
LG Display
LXD Incorporated- Mitsubishi Electric[3][4][5]
- NEC Display Solutions (former, now Tianma[6])
- Panasonic Corporation (former)
- Pioneer
- Planar Systems (former)
- Samsung Display (former, formerly / S-LCD, a then-joint venture between Samsung Electronics and Sony which Samsung Electronics subsequently bought out Sony's share)[7][8]
- Sharp Corporation
- Sony (former, merged into Japan Display)
- TCL (as CSOT)
- Tianma
- Toshiba (former, merged into Japan Display)
- Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology (Dissolved in 2009, bought by Toshiba)[9][10]
OLED panel manufacturers
Organic light emitting diode (or OLED displays) is a thin, flat panel made of glass or plastic used for electronically displaying information such as text, images, and moving pictures. OLED panels can also take the shape of a light panel, where red, green and blue light emitting materials are stacked to create a white light panel. OLED displays can also be made transparent and/or flexible and these transparent panels are available on the market and are widely used in smartphones with under-display optical fingerprint sensors. LCD and OLED displays are available in different shapes, the most prominent of which is a circular display, which is used in smartwatches. The list of OLED display manufacturers:
- AUO
- BOE
- China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT)
- Chunghwa Picture Tubes[11]
- eMagin[12][13]
- EverDisplay Optronics
- Futaba Corporation (former TDK[14][15])
- InnoLux Corporation[16]
- LG Display
- JOLED[17]
- Kyocera[18]
- LXD Incorporated
- OLEDworks[19]
- Pioneer Corporation[20][21][22]
- Planar Systems
- Ritek (RiT Display)[23]
- Samsung Display
- Sony[24]
- Sharp Corporation[25]
- Tianma
- Visionox[26]
MicroLED panel manufacturers
MicroLED displays is an emerging flat-panel display technology consisting of arrays of microscopic LEDs forming the individual pixel elements. Like OLED, microLED offers infinite contrast ratio, but unlike OLED, microLED is immune to screen burn-in, and consumes less power while having higher light output, as it uses LEDs instead of organic electroluminescent materials, The list of MicroLED display manufacturers:
Sony produces and sells commercial MicroLED displays called CLEDIS (Crystal-LED Integrated Displays, also called Canvas-LED) in small quantities.[28] Samsung sells a luxury and commercial product called "The Wall", which consists of several microLED display modules tiled together, like in most video walls.
Below are some manufacturers that make MicroLED light panels:
- Ostendo Technologies, Inc.
- Luumii
Plessey Semiconductors Ltd
LCD panel fabrication plants
This list lists current LCD fabrication facilities, former facilities are below this first table. LCDs are made in a glass substrate. For OLED, the substrate can also be plastic. The size of the substrates are specified in generations, with each generation using a larger substrate. For example, a 4th generation substrate is larger in size than a 3rd generation substrate. A larger substrate allows for more panels to be cut from a single substrate, or for larger panels to be made, akin to increasing wafer sizes in the semiconductor industry. Panel Inputs per month is how many substrates can a plant process per month.
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| Company | Plant name | Plant location | Plant cost (in US$ billions) | Started production | Substrate panel size (in generations) | Process technology (TFT, IPS, LTPS, IGZO, etc.) | Panel inputs per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharp | Taki Mie[29] | Japan[30] | 1995 | ||||
| Sharp | Kameyama | Japan[30] | 2004 | gen 6, gen 8 | |||
| AUO | Longtan | Taiwan[31] | 2001, 2003, 2004 | gen 4, gen 5 | |||
| AUO | Longke | Taiwan[31] | 2005 | gen 6 | |||
| AUO | Guishan | Taiwan[31] | 2001, 2003 | gen 3.5, gen 5 | |||
| Japan Display, JOLED,[32] former Panasonic[33][34][35] | Mobara | Japan, Mobara | 2006[36] | TFT | |||
| Japan Display | Kaoshiung | Taiwan[37] | IPS | ||||
| Japan Display | Tottori | Japan[38] | IPS | ||||
| Japan Display | Higashiura | Japan[39] | IPS | ||||
| Japan Display | Ishikawa | Japan[40] | 1.5[41][42][43][44][45] | 2016 | IPS | ||
| BOE | Hefei[46] | China[47] | 6.95[48] | 2018[48] | gen 10.5[47][49][50] | TFT | 120,000[51] |
| BOE | Hefei | China | gen 8.5 | TFT | |||
| BOE | Hefei | China | gen 6 | TFT | |||
| BOE | Beijing | China[47] | gen 5 | TFT | |||
| BOE | Ordos | China[52] | gen 5.5 | LTPS | |||
| BOE | Beijing | China[47] | gen 8.5 | TFT | |||
| BOE | Chengdu | China[47] | gen 4.5 | TFT | |||
| BOE | Fuzhou | China[47] | gen 8.5 | TFT | |||
| BOE | Chongqing | China | gen 8.5 | TFT | |||
| BOE | Fuqin | China | gen 8.5 | TFT | |||
| TCL | Shenzhen | China[53][54] | 9 | 2019(planned) | gen 11[55][56] | TFT, IGZO[57] | 90,000[58] |
| TCL | gen 8.5 | TFT[57] | |||||
| TCL | gen 6 | TFT[57] | |||||
| MYIR Tech Limited | Shenzhen, China | 2019 | TFT[57] | ||||
| LG Display | South Korea | gen 10.5[48] | |||||
| Chunghwa Picture Tubes | Longtan | Taiwan[59] | 2002 | gen 4.5, gen 6 | gen 4.5: 180,000, gen 6: 90,000 | ||
| Chunghwa Picture Tubes | Yamme | Taiwan[60] | gen 4.5, gen 6 | ||||
| Giantplus Technology | Bade Plant | Taiwan[61] | gen 3 | ||||
| Giantplus Technology | Hsinchu Plant | Taiwan[61] | gen 3.5 | ||||
| Giantplus Technology | Kunshan Giantplus Optronics Display Technology Co., Ltd | China[61] | |||||
| Giantplus Technology | Shenzhen Giantplus Optoelectronics Display Co., Ltd. | China[61] | |||||
| HannStar Display Corporation | Nanjing Hannstar Plant | Taiwan[62] | |||||
| HannStar Display Corporation | Nanjing Hannspree Plant | Taiwan[62] | |||||
| HKC | China[63] | 1.7 | 2017 | gen 8.6[64] | a-Si | 70,000 | |
| InnoLux Corporation | Taiwan[65] | ||||||
| China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT, also known as Shenzhen Huaxing Photoelectric Technology)[54] | China | Under construction | gen 10.5 | ||||
| China Star Optoelectronics Technology[66] | China | 3.5 | 2010 | TFT | 140,000 | ||
| China Star Optoelectronics Technology[66] | China | 3.5 | 2015 | a-Si TFT | 100,000 | ||
| China Star Optoelectronics Technology[66] | g11 project, t7[67] | China | 6.5 | 2019 | gen 10.5 (gen 11) | a-Si TFT | 90,000 |
| China Star Optoelectronics Technology[66] | t6[67] | China | 7.25 | 2019 | gen 10.5 (gen 11) | a-Si TFT | 90,000 |
Former
| Company | Plant name | Plant location | Plant cost (in US$ billions) | Started production | Substrate panel size (in generations) | Process technology (TFT, IPS, LTPS, IGZO, etc.) | Panel inputs per month | Ceased Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samsung, former S-LCD | Asan | South Korea | 2005, 2007 | gen 7, gen 8[68][69] | 362,000[70] | Late 2016, turned into amoled production[71] | ||
| Chunghwa Picture Tubes | Taoyuan[72] | Taiwan[73] | 1973 (as CRT display factory), 1995 (gen 3), 1997 (gen 4) | gen 3, gen 4 | TFT | gen 3: 40,000, gen4: 72,600 | 2015, sold to giantplus and tce photomasks, gen 3 still operated by giantplus, gen 4 line sold to giantplus, equipment sold and line demolished, remainder operated by tce | |
| Panasonic | Himeji[74] | Japan, Himeji | 2010 | gen 8 | TFT | 2017, now makes Li-ion batteries[75][76][77] |
OLED fabrication plants
Only actual plants are listed, former plants should be placed on a table below this one.
| Company | Plant name | Plant location | Plant cost (in US$ billions) | Started production | Substrate panel size (in generations) | Process technology (TFT, LTPS, IGZO, LTPO, etc.) | Panel inputs per month | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUO[78] | Singapore | Singapore | 2013 | gen 4.5 | ||||
| Samsung | Giheung[79] | South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, Yongin | ||||||
| Samsung | Chungcheongnamdo, Cheonan[79] | South Korea | ||||||
| Samsung | Samsung Display Vietnam[79] | Vietnam | ||||||
| Samsung | Samsung Display Tianjin (SDT)[79] | China, Tianjin | [80] | |||||
| Samsung | Samsung Display Dongguan (SDD)[79] | China, Guangdong | ||||||
| Samsung | Samsung Suzhou LCD (SSL), Module (SSM)[79] | China, Jiangsu Province, Suzhou Industry Park, Fengli Street | ||||||
| Samsung[81][82] | South Korea, Asan | 2018 (planned) | ||||||
| Samsung | A3[83] | South Korea, Asan? | 135,000 | |||||
| Samsung | A5[83] | South Korea, Cheonan? | Under construction | 180,000–270,000 | ||||
| Samsung | A4[83] | South Korea, Asan? | 45,000 (planned, by the end of 2018) | |||||
| Samsung | A1[83][79] | South Korea, Asan | 55,000 | |||||
| Samsung | A2[83][79] | South Korea, Asan | 180,000 | |||||
| Samsung | South Chungcheong site | South Korea, South Chungcheong | 12.6[84] | |||||
| Japan Display | Hakusan | Japan[85][86][87][88] | ||||||
| Sony[89] | Higashiura | Japan, Aichi | ||||||
| LG Display[90] | Paju Display Cluster[91][92][93] | South Korea, Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do | 6.9[94] | 2004 | 70,000 | |||
| LG Display | P9[95][96] | |||||||
| LG Display | E6[95][96] | 1.78[95] | 2013[97] | gen 6 | ||||
| LG Display | E2[95][96] | 2013[97] | gen 4.5 | |||||
| LG Display | P10[98] | 8.71[99] | 2018 (planned) | gen 6 | ||||
| LG Display | E5[95][96] | South Korea, Gumi | 2013[97] | gen 6 | 7,500 | |||
| LG Display | Guangzhou[100] | China, Guangzhou | 4.2 | 2019 | gen 8.5[101] | 60,000 | ||
| OLEDWorks[102] | Germany, Aachen | |||||||
| TCL[103] | China, Shenzhen | 90,000 | ||||||
| TCL[104] | China | |||||||
| BOE[105] | Ordos | China, Ordos | gen 5.5 | |||||
| BOE[105] | Chengdu[106] | China, Chengdu | 2018 | gen 6 | ||||
| BOE[105] | Sichuan[107] | China, Sichuan | ||||||
| BOE[105] | Hefei[108] | China, Hefei | gen 8 | |||||
| BOE[105] | Mianyang[109] | China, Mianyang[109] | gen 6 | |||||
| BOE[105] | Chongqing[109] | China | $1.5 | Under construction | gen 8 | |||
| China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT, also known as Shenzhen Huaxing Photoelectric Technology)[110] | Wuhan | China | $5.08 | Under construction | gen 6 | LTPS AMOLED | 45,000 | |
| China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT)[111] | Shenzhen | China | $6.7 | 2021 (planned) | gen 11 | |||
| JOLED[112] | Japan, Nomi | gen 4.5 | Printed OLED | |||||
| JOLED[112] | Japan, Nomi | Under construction | gen 5.5 | Printed OLED | ||||
| EverDisplay Optronics[113] | China | 2014 | gen 4.5 | 20,000 | ||||
| EverDisplay Optronics[114] | Shanghai | China | $4.1 | 2018 | gen 6 | 30,000 | ||
| Tianma[115] | China | gen 5.5 | ||||||
| Tianma[116] | Wuhan | China | 2017 | gen 6 | ||||
| Tianma[117] | Xiamen | China | Under construction | gen 6 | 30,000 | |||
| Visionox[118] | Hebei | China | $4.5 | 2018 | gen 6 | 30,000 | ||
| Visionox[119] | Guangzhou | China | $6.3 | Under construction | gen 6 | 30,000 |
MicroLED fabrication plants
Only actual plants are listed, former plants should be placed on a table below this one.
| Company | Plant name | Plant location | Plant cost (in US$ billions) | Started production | Substrate panel size (in generations) | Process technology (TFT, LTPS, IGZO, LTPO, etc.) | Panel inputs per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUO[120] | Longtan | Longtan, Taiwan | since 2018 | 4.5 (latest generation in 2025) | (patented) | >100,000 (start 2025) | |
| Luumii[121] | Suzhou | Suzhou, China | 2019 | 40,000 (increasing to 100,000 by the end of 2019) | |||
| Leyard-Epistar[122] | Wuxi, China | 0.143 | 2023(under construction) | ||||
| Plessey Semiconductors Ltd[123] | Plessey Semiconductors Ltd | Roborough, Plymouth, United Kingdom | 2018[124] |