OLED Monitor Market Growth Surge and the Technological Advancements of Samsung and LG Display for High End Panels
The international market for high end computer screens is moving swiftly towards organic light emitting diode displays. The march towards digital displays in the premium computer monitor space is accelerating rapidly, with the international OLED monitor market showing a 74.2% rise in income over the last year according to database tracking by market research firm Omdia, jumping from US $1,594,410,000 to US $2,777,690,000. The signalled rise is further estimated to be 29.3% to US $3,590,950,000. This sharp rise in recent years is seen to reflect directly on display manufacturers in South Korea, who today own all of the world market for high end, high value panels.
In fact, OLED accounted for just 0.8% of the larger monitor market in 2022 but has grown to encompass 16.9% today. This is most apparent at the top end of the value scale (all screens costing more than $800), where the OLED share has risen from just 2.4% to 60.6%. Its self emiticing nature makes it ideal for gaming displays as there is no backlight needed giving near instant pixel response times and infinite contrast ratios.
Samsung Display has maximum share of around 74.5% in the world which is for company's revenue. To strengthen the market and to make the product more durable, the company is using a new Quantum Black film for all of its monitors to cut down glare on the screen. The company is working to integrate other larger sized formats with the Penta Tandem architecture pioneered by them which uses a five layer blue light emitting structure that was previously limited to 27 inch screens. However 31.5 inch and 34 inch versions are also available now and the 49 inch version would also be introduced in the next few months.
One industry source pointed out that for large format monitor panel makers, margins are higher than those for TV panels, which makes large scale displays sector an key emerging market for OEMs, soaring their ambitious volume push for hi end shipments.
In contrast of the smart phone display market, where Chinese brands are gaining ground, the large scale OLED monitor market is still an all for Korea territory.
LG Display has the remaining 25.5% of the market share will also do faster expands its manufacturing capacity. LG will increase the share of monitor panels the large format OLED shipments from around 10% of the current 20% to meet the increasing business and gaming needs. LG continues to use its 4 th generation display architecture, stacks of 4 separate red, green and blue light emitting layers.
During the Computex 2026 exhibition held in Taipei, LG presented several future technologies aimed at improving the longevity and the performance of its panels. Among them, the Black Frame Insertion modifies the hardware to reduce motion blur while the True Black 1000 technology gives the panels the capacity to reach a peak brightness of 2000 nits. While these collaborative engineering routes, Korean manufacturers remain the driving force behind the development of the display industry worldwide.
