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AMOLED TV sector ''facing manufacturing and supply chain challenges''

26 January 2012
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AMOLED TV sector ''facing manufacturing and supply chain challenges''Manufacturing management issues and expensive materials are likely to delay the global rollout of active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) televisions, despite the fact that they are being displayed at this year's Consumer Electronics Show.

Although shipments are expected to rise to 2.1 million units by 2015, this will still just represent one per cent of the global flat-panel market.

The hi-def television uses less than a third of the power needed to run a conventional liquid crystal display flatscreen.

Vinita Jakhanwal, director of small/medium and OLED displays at IHS, said: "Prices will remain dramatically higher than those of LCD TVs during the next few years because of manufacturing yield issues."

Despite the superior viewing experience they offer they are still too expensive to enter the mainstream consumer market, he added.

This comes as the Markit/CIPS UK manufacturing index found British manufacturing stagnating in December, with levels of output and numbers of new orders falling more steeply than they have since 2009.ADNFCR-3058-ID-801275625-ADNFCR
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