Updated: LG Display rebrands OLED lineup as 'Tandem WOLED' and 'Tandem OLED'

LG Display, the maker of OLED panels for most TVs and many PC monitors, has announced a rebrand of its OLED technology, dividing it into 'Tandem WOLED' and 'Tandem OLED'.
Update: LG Display is now also teasing its 2026 OLED technology and panels. FlatpanelsHD has added an extra '2026 Tandem WOLED panels' section to this article at the end.
This marks the first full rebranding of LG Display's OLED technologies since the launch 13 years ago. These panels compete with Samsung Display's QD-OLED and soon TCL's RGB OLED.

The rebrand comes ahead of CES 2026 in Las Vegas, where new OLED technologies and panels will be showcased.


Tandem WOLED for TVs, monitors
LG Display said that large WOLED panels used in PC monitors and TVs will now be known as 'Tandem WOLED'.

- "Basically, 'Tandem' was chosen as the brand name to highlight the strengths of LG Display OLED, including increased durability and performance, long life, high brightness, and low power consumption through the laminated OLED structure," explained LG Display (translated).

These panels, often referred to as WOLED by consumers, are used in OLED TVs from LG Electronics, Philips, Panasonic, Sony, Samsung, Hisense, B&O, Loewe, Grundig and others. This year's most advanced panel was called 'Primary RGB Tandem OLED', while last-gen panels were often referred to as 'OLEX EX'.

- "For the first time in the industry, we added 'W', representing the white light source, which is a unique feature of LG Display OLED technology, and 'Tandem', which refers to the laminated structure of R (red), G (green), and B (blue) elements stacked in independent layers, respectively."



Tandem OLED for mid-sized devices
The OLED panels designed for laptops, tablets, cars and similarly sized devices will now be branded as 'Tandem OLED'.

- "The small and medium-sized OLED brand reflects the technical features of stacking two RGB element layers, hence 'Tandem OLED',"  said LG Display.

These panels are supplied to consumer devices from brands like Apple, LG Electronics, Asus, Acer and many more.

LG Display is gradually transitioning its monitor panels to Tandem OLED technology, with one of the first examples being the 540 / 720Hz monitor panel.


2026 OLED panels
In a separate video (via TFTCentral), LG Display is teasing several new OLED panels for 2026 as well as 'Primary RGB Tandem 2.0' technology, which is expected to push brightness further than in 2025 where the 'Primary RGB Tandem' panel powered OLED TVs like LG G5 and Panasonic Z95B as well as a handful of 27-inch gaming monitors.

One of the new monitor panels teased is a curved 39-inch 'Tandem WOLED' panel with 5120x2160 ultrawide resolution. This panel has been rumored for some time.

Another panel teased is a 27-inch 'high ppi' panel named 27U, most likely short for UHD, or 4K resolution. This would compete head-to-head with the 27-inch 4K QD-OLED panel from Samsung Display.

LG Display will announce its 2026 OLED technology and panels at CES 2026 in early January.