Taiwanese companies are investing in AMOLED panel production
According to the resource Digitimes, Taiwanese panel makers continue to increase investment in the production of OLED-displays, including flexible. Companies such as AU Optronics (AUO) and Innolux Corporation (which changed its name from Chimei Innolux November 14, 2012) is more optimistic about the future use of AMOLED-panels in the ultra-mobile devices and TVs.
However, it is also reported that AUO has reached a dead point in increasing the proportion of yield panels RGB AMOLED - the company still can not raise rates because of a number of bottlenecks created by the production of displays used for vacuum deposition process. Simultaneously, Innolux, according to sources, is also experiencing difficulties with the improvement of production W-OLED panels due to a lack of resources and personnel.
All this makes AUO and Innolux to invest more resources in research and development segment of the technology AMOLED, especially after the experienced staff of both companies began to leave the job for a similar factories in mainland China. The sources added that the AUO and Innolux will likely improve significantly the scale of production of AMOLED-display in 2013, which will enable them to withstand the increasing competition from Chinese manufacturers panels.
