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Royale Develops OLED Tablet
December 11, 2017

OLED panel maker Royole is set to release a new tablet device that uses an OLED display. The tablet, which will be called the Royole RoWrite Wordpad, will have a display sized at around 6-7 inch, which probably makes it more of a Phablet. Royole did not officially announce the device yet. Royole is constructing a 5.5-Gen flexible OLED production facility in Shenzhen, China. It was expected to be ready for MP in Q318, but is now scheduled to begin operation in 2018 and will have a monthly capacity of 15,000 substrates/month growing to 45,000 substrates/month. Royale also expects to add a Gen 6 fab in 2019. In addition to flexible OLED production and R&D, Royole also develops VR headsets, and in 2016 Royole launched its first product, the Royole Moon foldable VR headset - that uses OLED microdisplays to achieve a PPI of over 3,000. Royole is also developing flexible sensor technology, and offers its IP for licensing. The company says it has over 500 patents (issued and pending) - in the areas of materials, processes, devices, circuits, software and product design. In September 2017 Royole raised $800 million in its fourth financing round, from Bank of China, ICBC, City Bank and others. Part of that round ($560 million) was in debt while the rest was in equity.