Samsung's OLED in 2009/2010

Samsung has a production capacity of 1.5 million OLED displays today, which it expects to double in 2009, and then again in 2010. Samsung's VP of mobile display marketing, Wong-Jong Lee tells that the work will be in bringing up manufacturing capacity so that production costs will drop on the expensive displays.

It wasn't that long ago that we were drooling over Samsung's OLED displays at CES. Now the company says its medium and large OLED displays should start popping up regularly in laptops, HDTVs, and monitors as soon as 2009.

Ideally, this type of market saturation from Samsung (and competitors like Sony) should drive the price down on OLED displays. But one has to wonder how cheap the units can realistically get. We're hedging our bets and setting aside $1,000 for our mythic 37" OLED just in case.