This year, Huawei may face a shortage of AMOLED-panels for smartphones. This is reported today by the Taiwanese industry publication DigiTimes , citing sources in the supply chain.
According to sources, in 2017, Huawei will have only 8% of the total volume of shipments of smartphones with AMOLED-displays due to their shortage. In the period from 2017 to 2018, about 70% of all OLED panels produced in the world (mainly Samsung Display) will be used by Samsung Electronics and Apple, thereby limiting the supply of OLED displays to other smartphone manufacturers.
It is noted that LG Display will start delivering OLED panels in 2018, and the Chinese company BOE Technology will be able to start their production no earlier than 2020.
This year Samsung Display will supply about 75 million OLED-panels for the new iPhone on Apple's order, which is 14% of the total production of OLED-screens in the world. Samsung mobile devices will own 56% of all AMOLED panels produced. On the share of Chinese brands Vivo and Oppo will have 13% and 10% of the market OLED-displays. Deliver the OLED panel for them will be Samsung Display, a subsidiary of Samsung, with which they have already signed an agreement.