Samsung Inc. is the leader in OLED production and it uses OLEDs in almost all their flagship devices like Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge and Note 5.
LG display is now the leader of the OLED market and provides other companies with OLED screens. OLED is currently used in high TVs and mobile phones.
LG OLED TVs
LG Display is the world's leading OLED TV panel producer, and LG Electronics is its largest customer - although LGD also supplies OLED panels to other companies including including Panasonic, Sony, Philips, Loewe, JVC, Hisense, Konka and others.
LG Display already supplies panels for Sony, Philips, Panasonic and others for their respective OLED sets, however, Samsung has sought alternative routes thus far its own QD-OLED panels and Mini LED TVs.
According to Reuters , Samsung has inked a deal with LG to buy high-end white OLED (WOLED) TV panels from its long-standing rival.
Apple OLED supplier Samsung Display will start manufacturing OLED panels for the iPhone 15 series a month earlier than planned due to production problems with one of Apple's other suppliers, according to a new report out of Korea.
That's right, LG makes the OLED displays for Sony and Vizio, as well as LG-branded OLED TVs. So if you buy an OLED TV from Sony, for example, you're still getting an LG OLED panel, but you're paying for Sony's design, picture processing and audio technologies, as well as its smart operating system.
The microLED displays will be Apple's first screens designed and developed entirely in-house. The company currently sources screens from a range of manufacturers, including Japan Display Inc., Sharp Corp. and BOE Technology Group Co., in addition to Samsung and LG.
Samsung Display says that 70% of smartphones that use OLED panels are using Samsung technologies. The company is the largest OLED supplier in the world, boasting a 70% market share, but it is not the only OLED panel manufacturer.
Curiously, even though Panasonic buys its OLED panels from LG Display, the same company that provides OLED panels to its sister company, LG Electronics (LGE), LGE did not specifically call out Micro Lens Array as the tech behind its much brighter G3 OLED evo model.
QLED vs. OLED: the verdict
Both of these technologies are impressive in their own ways, but we're here to pick a winner, and for the moment, it's OLED. With better performance in the categories that most people will notice while watching TV shows and movies, it's still the best picture quality you can buy.
The OLED97G2 4K evo Gallery Series OLED TV measures 97 inches from corner to corner. Yep, that's over 8 feet of OLED self-illuminating pixel goodness.
Sony vs LG TV: Our verdict
We can't say that its OLED or 8K TVs are any better or worse than LG's, but between the two brands, LG has a greater choice at the lower end of the price range while still offering premium models at the opposite end of the scale.
The two most popular types of TVs are OLED and LED. The main differences come down to contrast and motion i.e. picture quality. OLEDs can offer true blacks (more on that later) and therefore exceptional contrast. As a result, it's widely believed OLEDs offer the best quality viewing.
The Sony A95L is the successor to last year's award-winning A90L QD-OLED TV, and it uses Samsung Display's second-generation QD-OLED panel with improved color volume and higher peak brightness. It comes in 55-inch, 65-inch, and 77-inch size options.
More than 20 brands source OLED TV panels from LG Display including LG Electronics, Hisense, Sony, Panasonic, Philips, and Vizio.
Samsung temporarily stopped releasing OLED TVs after 2013 due to high prices and high hopes for its QLED TVs competing with strong image quality and lower prices.
Reuters reports that LG Display will supply high-end 77- and 83-inch white OLED panels to Samsung in a deal that could help it turn a profit amid fierce competition in LCD panels from Chinese rivals.
It's not that the company didn't have the capacity to make large OLED panels. Samsung maintained that it didn't view this technology as worthy of being utilized for high-end TVs. LG has remained all-in on OLED TVs for almost a decade now. Samsung's answer came from its QLED TVs, which were first introduced in 2017.
Sony vs LG
Sony and LG each make OLED and LED TVs. LG is the dominant OLED brand for OLEDs because they have better gaming performance and generally cost less. However, Sony's LED models are far better than LG's because they get brighter, have better uniformity, and usually have better contrast.
LG Display manufactures TV panels for Sony.