The perfect PC OLED just became less likely as Japanese manufacturer goes bust

pcgamer.com:

One of Japan's leading OLED panel makers, JOLED, has gone bust. While JOLED didn't make any of the panels in the latest generation of OLED gaming monitors, its demise is worrisome on several levels.

JOLED is a relatively new company—having been formed out of the OLED business units of Sony and Panasonic in 2015—but it's a sad matter for PC gamers that the outfit filed for bankruptcy on Monday (via Nikkei Asia(opens in new tab)).

As for why that matters for PC gaming, for starters JOLED was a pioneer in a new «inkjet» process of manufacturing OLED panels which promises to dramatically lower costs. Both LG's WOLED and Samusng's QD-OLED use a more expensive vacuum deposition manufacturing process that involves vaporizing the OLED material in a vacuum chamber before using masks to resolve the panel structure. It's not hard to see how simply printing OLED panels could be cheaper.

JOLED was likewise unusual in manufacturing OLED panels with a pure RGB-stripe subpixel layout. That's the subpixel structure used by most LCD monitors for PCs and it's required for font smoothing technologies including Microsoft's ClearType to function correctly.

Admittedly, subpixel structure is a lot less critical for gaming and watching video. But a non-RGB stripe structure is suboptimal for general computing duties. If you want a monitor for doing a bit of everything, not just gaming, you want an RGB-stripe monitor.

Anyway, JOLED also made OLED panels with superior pixel density to those from LG and Samsung, whose OLED PC monitor panels are really just repurposed TV panels, including a 32-inch 4K model.

JOLED specialized in the mid-sized panels that are ideal for PC monitors. Bigger than panels for phones, but smaller than those for TVs, in