Samsung delays production of 89″ microLED TV to third quarter

Samsung has decided to postpone the production timeline for the 89″ version of its microLED TVs to the third quarter of this year. At least that is what the South Korean website The Elec reports based on sources.

In addition to moving the production of the 89″ version, Samsung would still have to make a decision about the production start of the 101″ version. In addition, Samsung will begin production of a 99″ version sometime in the second quarter of this year. reports the Elec. That version should have been released last year, but it was then postponed.

In January of this year, Samsung announced that it would release three microLED TVs this year with screen diagonals of 110″, 101″ and 89″. Production should have started in May. These are televisions that can be connected via the existing HDMI connections in be able to combine a 4k resolution at 120 frames per second.

The production of micro LED TVs remains a challenge and there are several production methods. The newer versions of, among others, 89″ and 101″ use low-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin-film transistors. That makes 4k resolution possible with relatively small screen diagonals. The 99″ and 101″ versions, on the other hand, are based on PCBs. The Elec writes that the 89″ model also uses considerably smaller LED chips at 34×85 micrometers, while the 99″ and 110″ versions use chips with dimensions of 75 and 125 micrometers.

The inorganic LEDs used in the microLED screen technology have a number of important advantages over OLEDs. For example, they are very efficient, achieve a high maximum brightness, have a very long life and can generate very pure colors. MicroLED TVs, like OLED TVs, do not need a backlight, because the pixels generate their own light. Other similarities are a very high contrast and a perfect black display. Compared to OLED TVs, microLEDs are said to suffer less from burn-in and not to suffer from uneven wear of different colored LEDs.