三星显示器计划新建一条G6 AMOLED生产线，规划产能30K
三星显示器计划新建一条G6 AMOLED生产线，规划产能30K
据 TheElec 10月26日报道，三星显示器已向其供应商订购设备，计划用于其新的手机OLED生产线，该生产线可能称为A4E。
新生产线将使用 Gen 6 (1500x1850mm) 基板来制造将用于智能手机的小型OLED面板。
A4E将在液晶显示器生产线“L7-2”原位于首尔峨山的三星显示器工厂的地方建造。
该公司正在建设一条新生产线，以弥补因升级现有的A3和A4-1生产线而导致的OLED产能下降。
因此，A4E将没有A3和A4-1(以前称为L7-1)所使用的一些设备。
A3和A4-1线升级，增加了可以使OLED面板支持Y-OCTA触摸技术和低温多晶氧化物(LTPO)薄膜晶体管(TFT)技术的工艺。
这也导致一些设备被更换和闲置。这些将在A4E中重复使用，A4E也将拥有支持在OLED面板上应用LTPO TFT的设备。
三星显示器(Samsung Display)的目标是为A4E提供每月30,000基板的生产能力。
目前，每月可订购1.5万个基板，预计将花费1万亿韩元左右。明年，该公司将为额外的1.5万个基板订购设备。
如果A4E生产完成，到2023年为止，三星显示器将确保每月16.5万基板的生产能力，与2019年的生产能力相当。
Samsung Display has placed orders for equipment to its suppliers that it plans to use for its new mobile OLED production line, which will likely be called A4E, TheElec has learned.
The new production line will use Gen 6 (1500x1850mm) substrates to manufacture small OLED panels that will be used in smartphones.
A4E will be built at the location where L7-2 line, which manufactured liquid crystal display panels, use to be at Samsung Display’s plant at Asan, South Korea.
The company is building a new line to offset the drop in OLED production capacity from upgrading its existing A3 and A4-1 lines.
A4E will therefore won’t have some of the equipment that are used at A3 and A4-1 (previously called L7-1).
A3 and A4-1 lines were upgraded to add processes that can have the OLED panels support Y-OCTA touch technology and low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) thin-film transistor (TFT) technology.
This has also caused some equipment to be swapped and unused. These will be reused in A4E, which will also have equipment that support application of LTPO TFT on to the OLED panels.
Samsung Display is aiming for a capacity of 30,000 substrates per month for A4E.
It has placed kit orders enough for 15,000 substrates per month, which will cost the company around 1 trillion won. It will order equipment for the additional 15,000 substrates per month next year.
A4E will be relatively expensive to built as though it doesn’t have deposition equipment it has kits for LTPO TFF, which costs more than those for low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) TFT.
LTPO changes the switching TFT to oxide material to reduce power consumption compared to LTPS. LTPO has around three to four more layers because of this, which requires additional production steps.
Samsung Display’s largest customer Apple applied LTPO OLED panels in its iPhone 13 Pro models for the first time this year.
Cupertino is expected to ship even more iPhones next year, and Samsung Display is preparing to meet this surge.
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