AUO announced that the company plans to recruit 2.500 new employees in 2010. The new staff are for the core business LCD panel production, photovoltaic and their new OLED business.

The panel maker said it is headhunting for fresh college graduates, personnel with some work experience, as well as managers, from Taiwan and overseas.
Source:digitimes.com

Samsung Mobile Display Vice President Brian Berkeley said that Full size OLED-Tvs are on the horizon.

At the DisplaySearch conference Berkeley says that Samsung is accelerating its development of OLED Displays, focusing on the size and volume rollout of OLEDS for the HDTV Flat TV market.

Lg Display informed us that they launch the 15EL9500 world largest OLED Television device in Europe. The 15 inch OLED Tv starts in May on the austrian market. The price of the 15EL9500 is 1.999.- Euros!

A company named 3D Micromac AG announced innovative production Solutions for Processing of OLEDs.

Highest throughput and efficient material utilization by using of ultra short pulsed laser

Organic light emitting diodes are electronic devices with a total thickness of a few millimeters sending out light. OLEDs are composed of different organic semiconductor thin film layers.

Dupont want to introduce a new tool that can help to protect the layers of an OLED Display with ceramics instead of glass.
Ideally, the material could move toward commercialization in a few years.

To date, moisture has been a major stumbling block for both OLED and CIGS manufacturers: water vapor seeps in and defects and malfunctions often follow. The moisture problem for OLEDs is probably a harder one to fix, said Doyle.

Sony ends to sell the world first OLED-Television device XEL-1 in Japan.

At the ISE-2010 LG Electronics show also the world largest OLED Panel the EL9500. It is a 15 inch AMOLED-TV LG Display named EL9500. The LG staff at the booth told us the same like the CES-2010 staff. LG Display want to introduce the AMOLED-TV middle 2010 in the United States.
At the moment the management doesn't make any decision right now about the market entry in europe.

Kateevas goal is to make large-scale printing equipment that make high-performance OLED televisions more affordable.

With this large area OLED printer Kateeva says that the display manufacturer can produce large OLED Displays for 60 percent of the cost of LCD Panels.

We are in Amsterdam at the ISE-2010 event and happy to see the 149 inch OLED screen from Mitsubishi. This is the world first scalable OLED screen technology.

A very good article from TechOn this morning.
The headline is OLED Panels: The Way to Larger Screens
The trend is accelerating as the possibilities for large OLED panels open up, and a new market for 20-inch and larger OLED TVs may emerge in 2010 or beyond.
The key infos are that LG Display does have big plans with the OLED Technology.