DisplaySearch Announces Q3'05 OLED Y/Y Growth: Shipments Up 144%, Revenues Up 49%.AUSTIN, Texas -- DisplaySearch, an NPD Group The NPD Group, Inc. is a leading global market research company[1] founded in 1967 and provides consumer and retail information to manufacturers and retailers. Using actual sales data from retailers and distributors as well as consumer-reported purchasing behavior, NPD Company and the worldwide leader in display market research and consulting, indicated in its latest Quarterly OLED (Organic Light Emitting Device, Organic Light Emitting Diode) A thin film light-emitting technology that is expected to compete with LCD and plasma TVs as well as LCD monitors and readouts. Shipment and Forecast Report that OLED shipments grew to 16.7M and revenues hit $130.9M in Q3'05. Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) displays compete with LCDs in small/medium applications such as mobile phone main displays and subdisplays, MP3s and automotive consoles. OLED shipments increased 144% Y/Y due to 35% growth in MP3 player sales, and 93% growth in industrial displays. All of the growth is in PMOLEDs using small molecule material; AMOLED AMOLED Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode AMOLED Active Matrix Organic Led producers -- Sanyo Kodak, AUO AUO Au Optronics Corporation AUO Administratively Uncontrollable Overtime AUO Active User Object AUO Aggravated Unlicensed Operation (of a Motor Vehicle) AUO Area Utilization Officer AUO alt.usenet. and Sony -- shipped less than 50K displays in Q3'05. P-OLED material panel producers continued to struggle with less than a 3% share of total shipments. Samsung SDI (1) (Serial Digital Interface) A physical interface widely used for transmitting digital video in various formats. For electrical transmission, it uses a high grade of coaxial cable and a single BNC connector with Teflon insulation. led in units and revenue in Q3'05 with slightly over 4.4M displays and $37.1M in revenue. RiTdisplay was #2 in both shipments and revenue. TDK TDK Türk Dil Kurumu (Turkish Language Council) TDK The Dark Knights (gaming clan) TDK Tokyo Denkikagaku Kogyo KK (TDK Electronics Co. Ltd. experienced the strongest growth of the top five, with shipments up 138% Q/Q to 1.2M and revenue up 81% Q/Q to $7.6M. For the revenue results of the top five vendors in Q3'05 please visit: http://www.displaysearch.com/press/?id=505. The top five applications for OLED displays in shipments and growth for Q3'05 are shown at: http://www.displaysearch.com/press/?id=505. The Quarterly OLED Shipment and Forecast Report includes shipments, revenues, and ASPs by application, material type, driver technology and supplier. The Quarterly OLED Shipment and Forecast Report also shows capacity plans by supplier and has a comprehensive supply/demand forecast. This report is delivered in PowerPoint and includes Excel pivot tables. 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