What you need to know
- Samsung Display highlighted its innovations at SID Display Week 2026, such as its Flex Chroma Pixel screen for phones and its biometric reading sensor OLED display.
- The company also demonstrated a “transforming,” stretching speedometer/car display that would transform depending on certain conditions.
- LG also attended SiD Display Week and demonstrated its third-generation Tandem OLED technology.
A good display is essential for any device, and at SID Display Week 2026, Samsung highlighted innovations in OLED technology.
Display Week 2026 is on its final day (May 7), but that’s not stopping Samsung from performance The new screens it is working on. In a huge improvement to its OLED technology, Samsung demonstrated a smartphone OLED display called the “Flex Chroma Pixel”. It is said to reach a peak brightness of 3,000nits with strong support for the BT.2020-96 color space. Samsung says this standard has become the norm for UHD and HDR broadcasts.
One of the main points behind Samsung’s Flex Chrome Pixel display is that it reportedly meets 96% of the BT.2020-96 standard, as opposed to the 70% covered by most “commercially available” OLED panels on phones today. Additionally, Samsung’s development process has focused on “low-power and high-brightness polarizer-free OLED technology.”
Elsewhere, Samsung teased another screen: a “sensor OLED display.” A company official said about this product, “Sensor OLED displays are structurally challenging to achieve high resolution, because RGB pixels and OPD pixels must be arranged within the same layer.” The company reports achieving 500 ppi resolution in 2025, which is a 33% improvement over its previous resolution.
This sensor OLED display seems to focus on some health as well. Samsung demonstrated the ability for the user to touch the display, allowing it to measure biometric information such as blood flow.
Samsung has always pushed its display technology forward, but so has LG and its “future of displays.” Also highlighted At SID Display Week 2026. In an effort to maintain its leadership in OLED, LG turned its attention to its third-generation tandem OLED technology. According to its press release, this third-generation display “features 18% lower power consumption and more than twice the lifespan of the previous generation.”
LG hopes this technology will extend to robots and vehicles running AI software. Even LG-branded OLED TVs are getting into this third-generation innovation. The post says that its showcased OLED TV panels use “Primary RGB Tandem 2.0” for maximum light efficiency. For cars, LG plans “a 57-inch P2P panel stretching from the driver’s to the passenger seat and a 32-inch slideable OLED that retracts into the roof and deploys when needed.”
samsung for cars
Samsung has also started its work focusing on its Stretchable Display 2.0 panels for automobile screens. Although it might seem odd for a car, Samsung says this screen offers an extendable speedometer that can “transform” according to your driving conditions. Samsung appeared confident in saying that its bridge structure can maintain reasonable electrical performance when stretched.
Samsung’s two EL-QD technology prototypes give consumers and others a glimpse of its quantum dot display. One was displayed at 18 inches (500nits), while the other was displayed at 6.5 inches (400nits).
The fun thing about Samsung’s sensor OLED displays at Display Week 2026 is that it has the same health-focused, biometric reading capabilities Last year also there was a show-off. The company seems to have retained the Sensor OLED display name, but upgraded its technical capabilities. Like last year, Samsung said this screen has a light-sensing organic photodiode (OPD) embedded within the material to capture your biometrics.
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SID Performance Week is great to see what is being worked on and by whom. Chances are you may see some of these coming on the market for purchase. Other times, they’re actually good concepts of what could happen. Take Samsung’s sensor screens for example. I wonder what kind of “conditions” would have to be met for a stretchable car screen to work. Is it speed?
