Strong AMOLED Demand Pushed Samsung to Top Q3 Smartphone Panel Share, Says IHS

Samsung Display leapfrogged BOE in Q3 to retake top global smartphone display-panel share on “record-high demand” for AMOLED screens, reported IHS Markit Monday. Samsung had 29 percent of smartphone display shipments, leaping 7.7 points from Q2. Samsung last was top in 2018's Q4. All major smartphone brands “have adopted AMOLED technology in their high-end models in 2019,” the researcher said. Samsung leveraged its reputation as the highest-quality and highest-capacity supplier of AMOLEDs to capitalize on that demand, it said. Smartphone AMOLED panel shipments totaled 146 million units in Q3, a 57 percent increase from Q2, said IHS.