CrunchGear: According to reports in Japanese newspapers today, Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) has set internal directives to start offering OLED TVs by 2011.
The company intends to use its R&D center in Kyoto as a base for a manufacturing plant solely for OLED panels. By next spring, the first prototype OLED TVs with a screen size of around 20 inches are expected to be produced there.
Mass production of OLED TVs with a screen size of 40 inches and more is scheduled for 2011 in a factory in near Kobe in central Japan.
Panasonic seems to be serious. They said 200 engineers will be assigned exclusively for the development of the next-generation displays.
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