According to news website Digitimes, and various news sites in Japan, Sharp is expected manufacture OLED panels for their own-brand Aquos high-end smartphone models. Smartphones are expected to reach the market during the fourth quarter of 2018.
In addition, Sharp is reported to have confirmed on the 31st July mass production of OLED panels had already started in June. The information was revealed during its latest financials for the quarter ending June 2018.
Sharp previously said that it would begin mass production of OLED panels in the summer 2018 using facilities avaialble at SaKai Display Products (SDP).
The news report pointed out that Samsung Display currently accounts for 90.1% of the global small- to medium-sized OLED panel market and LG Display makes up a small portion of 7.7%.