Samsung today announced plans to produce the world's first high-resolution active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) panel, using PenTile subpixel rendering technology from Clairvoyante.

By incorporating Clairvoyante's PenTile RGB technology, Samsung is able to develop the first handheld wVGA (480 x 800 px) OLED PenTile RGB panel, overcoming the manufacturing and performance challenges that have previously complicated high-resolution OLED production.

At 3.08-inch diagonal, this panel will optimize emerging applications for handheld Web browsers, GPS and video, where exceptional detail and viewability is required. Samsung OLED technology can result in the industry's thinnest packages for mobile applications and produces power-efficient displays with extraordinary viewing characteristics.

Currently, OLEDs are available in display formats only up to qVGA (240 x 320 px). Until now, OLED manufacturers have been challenged to achieve formats of greater than qVGA that also retain the lifetime and performance necessary for the handheld market. PenTile technology makes it possible to attain this improved performance by eliminating one-third of the subpixels while maintaining the same display resolution.

"Our partnership with Clairvoyante will create a new PenTile OLED panel that will lead the handheld market with a power-efficient, high-resolution OLED panel that supports continued innovation in emerging handheld applications," said Sung-Chul Kim, Samsung SDI vice president.

Samples are expected to be available in the first quarter of 2008, with mass production anticipated by the third quarter of 2008.

- Specifications: 3.08 inch PenTile RGB OLED from Samsung SDI
- Diagonal 3.08 inches
- Luminance 200 cd/m2
- Contrast 1000:1
- Power consumption 400 mW
- Color Gamut (NTSC) 100%
- Format Wide VGA 480 x 800 px