LG Display announced today that the industry's first tandem OLED panel for laptops has gone into mass production. A 13-inch panel is expected to appear in a Dell laptop.
LG Display's tandem OLED panel uses two stacks of red, green and blue (RGB) OLED layers, as opposed to the single stack in regular OLED panels used today.
Tandem OLED is more expensive to manufacture but delivers superior performance compared to a conventional OLED, which already in most areas significantly outperforms the LCD panels prevalent in laptops today.
The 13-inch tandem OLED for laptops. Photo: LG Display
- "Now applied to laptops for the first time, LG Display’s new Tandem OLED panel has been tailored for laptop use. It can deliver double the lifespan and triple the brightness of a conventional single-layer OLED display, while reducing power consumption by up to 40%, making it ideal for high-performance IT devices like AI laptops as well as regular laptops," said LG Display.
The panel measures 13 inches diagonally, with a 2880x1800 resolution and 100% DCI-P3 coverage. Despite the tandem structure, it is 40% thinner and 28% lighter than a typical OLED laptop screen today, according to LG Display. It is also touch-enabled. LG Display declined to share full specifications when asked by FlatpanelsHD.
Tandem OLED in a Dell laptop
Last month, the Korean newspaper The Elect reported that LG Display will supply tandem OLED to a Dell laptop, specifically the XPS13, although it appears that Dell will use a higher-resolution version of the 13-inch panel.
This will be the first time tandem OLED is used in a laptop. With the launch of the M4 iPad Pro, Apple introduced the first tablet with tandem OLED – the displays are produced by both LG Display and Samsung Display. However, tandem OLED was first applied as an automotive solution for cars in 2019.
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LG Display is expected to ship around 100,000 tandem OLED panels to Dell in the initial batch.
