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Integrated Fingerprint Sensors Improve OLED Panel Competitiveness
April 29, 2019
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The market size of OLED panels with in-display fingerprint sensors has expanded significantly as Samsung Electronics, Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO and vivo have added in-display fingerprint sensing technology from the premium smartphones to mid-range models, said the sources. Optical fingerprint sensing solutions from Synaptic and Goodix Technology in 2018, which came with more competitive pricing and fitted with the prevailing all-screen display design for smartphones, has helped bring down overall prices of in-display fingerprint sensor chips and therefore drove up its popularity. Samsung Display has also implemented a strategy aiming to narrow the price gap between rigid OLED and LTPS LCD panels as a means to ramp up its output and sales, added the sources. The price gap between rigid OLED and LTPS LCD panels has been reduced to within US$5 per unit recently, as lower OLED panel price with affordable in-display fingerprint sensors should squeeze sales of LTPS LCD panels in 2019. Overall shipments of LTPS LCD panels to the handset sector are expected to be 30 million units lower in 2019, according to China-based AVC Revo.
 
AVC Revo estimated that smartphone shipments in the China market reached about 98 million units in the first quarter of 2019 and would bounce back to over 100 million units in the second quarter. From: DigiTimes