According to UBI
Research Weekly Report, Samsung Display’s OLED shipped 480 million units in
2021. The highest number of shipments were in the 4th quarter at 133
million units and the second highest was in the in 3rd quarter at 129 million
units. Samsung Display OLED
application products shipped in 2021 were smartphones, watches, tablet PCs
notebooks and TVs. OLED for TVs started shipment in the fourth quarter
of last year. It was the first OLED for TV shipment in eight years since 2013
when they had discontinued mass production. Samsung Display OLED
for smartphones shipped 456 million units, which was 94% of the total
shipments. OLED for watches shipped 14 million units, just 2.9% of the total
shipments.
OLED for notebooks had the most significant growth in 2021.
5 million units were shipped, representing a 2.5 times higher growth than the
1.9 million Tablet PC units shipped.
According to a quarterly analysis of Samsung Display
smartphones shipments in 2021, 125 million units were shipped in the fourth
quarter, showing the highest performance. This is mainly due to high shipments
to Apple in the fourth quarter for OLED for iPhone. In 2021, 102 million units
of OLED for iPhone were shipped and 45.4 million units were supplied to Apple
in the fourth quarter. Therefore, the market share was the highest at 50.1% in
the fourth quarter for flexible OLED shipments. Flexible OLED and rigid OLED shipments were 190 million
units and 257 million units respectively in 2021. The annual shipment market
share was 41.6% and 56.5% respectively. Foldable OLED shipments were 8.7
million units, a market share of 1.9%.
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