Screens for smartphones based on active-matrix OLED (AMOLED) appeared relatively recently. Samsung appropriate production (plant A2) launched not so long ago - in December 2010. At full capacity, the company earned in the beginning of 2012, or less than two years ago. For the release of AMOLED screen Samsung has acquired a license from the original developer of technology OLED - the American company Universal Display. The company Universal Display has become a major supplier of raw materials for the production of OLED Samsung. The first contract for the production of AMOLED, Samsung has signed with Universal Display in 2005, the second - in 2011. The validity of each - six years.
LG Display company has gone a bit the other way. And business license for the production of active-matrix OLED it acquired from Kodak in 2009. The interesting thing is that LG has also found it necessary to ask Universal Display company .
According to an official press release, LG and Universal Display entered into a license agreement for the period up to 2022 Company LG Display paid all the necessary patents for the manufacture and sale of displays with screens OLED. It also, like Samsung, agrees to buy from the company Universal Display raw materials for the production of OLED. Long-term contract indicates that the LG decided to seriously take up the relatively new trend. It should also be recalled that, in contrast to Samsung, LG has decided not to bet on the small screens of smartphones, and on the large-format OLED screens for televisions.