The agreement, to be officially announced Wednesday, will tie Panasonic and Sony together with a joint-owned OLED manufacturing plan – making sizes up to 90″ eventually, which will start production early next year. OLED (organic light-emitting diode) promises blacker-blacks and whiter-whites in flat-panel TVs and displays, but also has the capability to be extremely thin — most of the larger OLEDs that have been show have been less than 0.4″ thick. They can also be built as flexible displays.
Rumors are that the new OLEDs from Sony-Panasonic will be less than 0.2″ thick and will start at 40″ diagonal.
We’ll report the official news when it happens.