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Samsung Display Unveils M16 OLED Stack for 2K 165Hz Smartphone Screens with 10,000-Nit Peak Brightness

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Samsung Display has introduced its newest M16 OLED material stack, which the company says enables the world's first 2K resolution smartphone AMOLED panel running at a 165Hz refresh rate. The first device to feature this M16-based 2K 165Hz display will be the upcoming Vivo iQOO 16 gaming smartphone.

According to Samsung Display, the M16 stack supports a peak brightness of up to 10,000 nits. Despite increasing the panel resolution from 1.5K to 2K, the company states it has cut power consumption by approximately 30% compared to its previous generation of smartphone AMOLED displays.

Samsung Display achieved this efficiency gain partly by increasing the thickness of the backplane wiring by 10%, which reduces electrical resistance and speeds up pixel charging. Additionally, the company moved to a 22-nanometer manufacturing process for the driving chip, an improvement over the previous 28-nanometer process, which further lowered the chip's operational power consumption by 30%.

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