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Jun 24, 09:44
Flexible AMOLED phone panel prices face pressure amid ongoing memory cost rise
Global smartphone buyers may see continued pricing pressure across display supply chains as a weak handset recovery and rising memory costs weigh on panel makers. In China and other markets, aggressive promotions have not revived replacement demand, leaving flexible AMOLED panels under the heaviest pressure into the third quarter.
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of June 15-21, 2026:

Taiwan's LED industry is moving beyond lighting components into AI optical communication, Micro LED, sensing, and high-end optoelectronic semiconductor applications. After years of oversupply, price wars, and restructuring, local LED makers are seeking a new role in the global supply chain as AI data centers accelerate demand for high-speed optical transmission.

The AI wave is rapidly reshaping the global semiconductor supply chain, and that upheaval is opening a new growth chapter for Taiwan's LED industry. As Taiwan's LED makers move away from the price wars of the consumer market, Nvidia's push to upgrade AI transmission standards to 1.6T, 3.2T, and beyond is exposing the physical limits of copper wiring, making scale-up the first battlefield in the competition between photons and electrons. Micro LED's high bandwidth and heat resistance position it as a key technology for the 3.2T-plus optical communications era.

Snap unveiled its new Specs augmented reality (AR) glasses at the Augmented World Expo on June 16. Its offering comes at a time when electronics and AI companies are delving into the competitive smart wearables market, with some at very affordable price points.

BOE Technology Group has begun mass production at its Chengdu high-tech zone facility, a move that could reshape the supply of OLED displays for notebooks and tablets, while intensifying competition in a market where manufacturers across Asia are racing to expand higher-generation panel capacity for global electronics buyers.
Huawei has notified partners and channel distributors that it will raise end-customer prices across its Intelligent Collaboration product line from July 1 this year, as the AI computing buildout tightens chip and component supply across the global semiconductor chain. The move follows Lenovo's earlier price increase and underscores mounting cost pressure on enterprise devices.

Netronix said memory shortages are hitting the color e-book reader industry, but its long-built supply-chain management system and diversified production base have helped blunt the impact. The company stressed that it can still support customer demand as supply tightens, framing this as a competitive advantage.

Global LCD TV panel prices have entered a new round of adjustment after the FIFA World Cup and China's 618 Shopping Festival stocking demand faded, with 32-inch and 43-inch panels leading declines in June. The shift signals a cyclical turning point with broad implications for manufacturers, retailers, and consumers worldwide.

Chinese OLED panel maker Visionox is accelerating the commercialization of its proprietary Visionox intelligent Pixelization (ViP) technology even as utilization rates at China's flexible OLED fabs continue to decline amid weaker smartphone demand and lingering inventory pressure.

Taiwan-based UBright Optronics is accelerating its transformation from an LCD optical film specialist into a diversified technology supplier, expanding into semiconductor materials, passive components and smart acoustics. The new businesses are expected to begin generating revenue in 2026 as product certifications advance, but the company has not yet offered guidance on their revenue impact.

The demand boost that came from World Cup-related television purchases and China's annual "618" shopping festival is beginning to fade, exposing a familiar challenge for Taiwan's display industry: how to grow when the panel cycle turns against it.