Samsung Display’s QD-OLED technology might see some dramatic improvements next year, with the company’s plans including the launch of its first 500Hz QD-OLED panels.
We may also see the first 4K 27-inch QD-OLED monitors, while LG Display is set to debut a 45-inch RGB OLED panel with higher resolution, according to Korean media reports.
ETNews said Samsung Display’s upcoming 500Hz QD-OLED panel would be the fastest-ever OLED panel to date, besting the 480Hz refresh rate of LG Display’s most advanced OLED displays, which are currently found in monitors sold by LG Electronics, Asus and Sony. Samsung Display supplies Samsung Electronics, as well as Asus, though the panels could also be supplied to other monitor brands.
The 500Hz panel will be a 27-inch QD-OLED monitor display with 2560x1440 resolution, ETNews said. It added that development is now in the final stages, and the panels will appear in products from “major monitor manufacturers” in the first half of next year.
The launch of a 4K QD-OLED display is a big improvement too, as existing monitors of that size max out at just 1440p resolution, the report added.
That will change next year though, as many monitor brands are planning to debut 4K 27-inch monitors next year. One Chinese brand, called Light Soul, is planning to launch a 27-inch QD-OLED display with 4K resolution and a 240Hz refresh rate, with 1,000 nits peak brightness. We should see the same panel adopted by other monitor makers, too.
Samsung showed off a prototype of that 27-inch QD-OLED panel to a select group of journalists back in January, so the launch is not much of a surprise.
As for LG Display, it’s said to be working on a 45-inch RGB OLED monitor panel that will feature resolution of 5120x2160 pixels, up from its current max resolution of 3440x1440.
LG Electronics already has a monitor based on that new panel that’s slated to launch next year, known as the LG 45GX950A. While it hasn’t been officially announced, it was spotted recently in a Korean government database of newly certified products.
TFTCentral says the LG Display will adopt a new pixel layout called RGWB, rather than the traditional RWBG layout, which should have the effect of improved text rendering. That layout is already found in its existing 32-inch 4K panels.
Traditionally, LG Display unveils its latest monitor panels in late December, before showing them off to the world at CES in January.
