In next two to three years, CMEL expects to volume produce AMOLED TV panels

According to Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) vice chairman Peter Chen, Chi Mei EL (CMEL) expects that its AMOLED TV-panel technologies, which are being developed with help from Kodak and DuPont, will see a breakthrough next year, and volume production may start in 2010 or 2011.

Peter Chen said, When the technology is ready, CMEL –a subsidiary of Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) – will then be able to work out a timetable for constructing its third production line to be dedicated to volume producing AMOLED TV panels. CMEL's yield for AMOLED panels has reached 70%, and is expected go up to 85% by the end of 2008.

CMO's second production line, which is under construction, will come online in October this year, and by then the CMO's monthly capacity will reach 800,000 units (2.8-inch equivalent), Peter Chen added, as TV panels will have to be produced at 5G or above lines in order to be cost effective, CMEL is still assessing the panel size that it will make.

p>While CMEL demonstrated a 25-inch AMOLED panel at Display Taiwan 2008 earlier this month, Chen said that may not necessarily be the size that the company will volume produce.