Quote: (Originally Posted by
Abbo)

I'm intrigued who you think is the world's biggest maker, but if you mean Cambridge Display Technologies (ticker OLED), though it did go bankrupt, it was bought by Sumitomo Chemical last month. It's not the end of display technologies just because no US companies are significnt players anymore. It is also interesting that just today the Nikkei newspaper carried a front-page story about Sony starting sales of 11-inch OLED TVs from 1 December. At 3mm thick, it sounds quite attractive.
Most of the remaining OLED producers are producing color displays for the most part which are much more power hungry than the large cell displays that were replacing typical LCDs..
OLEDs are not dead but the one that for us were the best have been dropped for the most part.. PLED is a closely related technology
The type of display I am talking about is commonly called "Large molecule passive matrix"
I knew about cambrdge display tech, but thats not the one I was thinking about.. Right now the name evades me but the manufacturer was in asia..
Also OSRAM ceased production and closed their plant in malaysia