Samsung Display shipped 5 million QD-OLED monitor since 2021
Samsung Display says its cumulative QD-OLED shipments for monitors passed 5 million units in March 2026. The company says it reached that figure a little over four years after starting mass production at the end of 2021. Samsung also says QD-OLED monitor shipments recorded an average annual growth rate of more than 320% between 2021 and 2025.
The company says demand accelerated quickly after the first million units. Samsung Display had reached 1 million cumulative shipments in May 2024, which means the next 4 million units shipped in less than two years. The announcement focuses on monitor panels, not TV panels.
Samsung Display announced that shipments of its QD-OLED monitors surpassed 5 million units last March, just over four years after the start of mass production. Having entered the premium monitor market by successfully mass-producing QD-OLEDs for the first time in the world at the end of 2021, Samsung Display has led the popularization and technological transition of the self-emissive monitor market, recording an average annual growth rate of over 320% over the four years from 2021 to 2025. In particular, this milestone of “surpassing 5 million units” was achieved in a short period of less than two years since recording cumulative shipments of 1 million units in May 2024, once again demonstrating rapidly increasing global demand.
— Samsung (translation)
Samsung Display also shared new product details tied to its monitor lineup. The company says it is now supplying a 34-inch 360Hz QD-OLED panel with a V-Stripe pixel structure designed to improve text readability. It also says new monitor products launching this year will use its QuantumBlack film , which the company says cuts light reflection by 20% compared to earlier films and raises panel hardness to 3H.
According to Omdia data cited by Samsung Display, self-emissive panels are expected to account for 41% of the premium monitor market above $500 by revenue in 2026 , up from 22% in 2024. Samsung Display says it is working with 20 global clients and has brought more than 150 QD-OLED monitor models to market. The list includes Acer, AOC/Philips, ASUS, Dell, GIGABYTE, HP, Lenovo, MSI, and Samsung Electronics.
© Samsung Samsung’s QD-OLED push also includes its own Odyssey gaming monitor lineup. The company has already launched models such as the Odyssey OLED G8 , its first OLED gaming monitor, followed by the Odyssey OLED G9 , and later expanded the range with newer Odyssey OLED G6 and Odyssey OLED G8 variants. That gives Samsung Display an easy way to showcase its QD-OLED panels in Samsung-branded products while also supplying the same panel technology to other monitor vendors.
Source: Samsung PR
