So on November 17, TCL CSOT (the panel-making beast under TCL Tech, stock code 000100 if you're into that) kicked off their annual blowout conference in Suzhou – the 2025 Global Display Ecosystem Conference, or DTC 2025 for short. The official theme was some fancy "True Vision for a Bright Future" line, but basically everyone was there to see what new toys they cooked up.
The place was packed – partners, media, competitors pretending to be friends, the whole circus. Instead of just talking numbers, they rolled out actual working demos across LCD, OLED, Mini/Micro-LED, and a ton of AI stuff. They're basically saying: "Yeah we still love LCD, but we're also deep into the shiny new stuff."
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They launched this thing called "APEX" – basically their new playbook for what makes a display "premium" now: crazy picture quality, eye-friendly tech, eco materials, and wild performance.
Star of the show: the world's first 5.65-inch phone-sized OLED made with inkjet printing (IJP OLED). Cheaper to make than the old evaporation method, and they claim the color and power numbers are legit. Also showed foldables that supposedly survive 400,000 folds without dying.
A ridiculous 163-inch Mini-LED monster with 37,500:1 contrast, 144 Hz, 24-bit color, and some hybrid dimming trick that kills flicker. Perfect for those giant video walls in malls.
Their big boss Kevin Wang spent half his speech on their "Five-Star AI" thing – AI that tweaks backlight in real time, predicts what brightness you want, does eye-care stuff automatically, etc. It's baked into everything they make now.
LCD isn't dead in their world. They keep pushing Mini-LED-backlit LCDs that get damn close to OLED contrast but cost way less. Still the king for big TVs, car screens, and commercial displays.
Sustainability flex: new white paper on eye health (version 2.0), less blue light, more "natural" viewing, all that good stuff.
The CTO pretty much said: "We're not just slapping pixels on glass anymore – we're building smart displays that think."
Bottom Line
If you thought Chinese panel makers were only good at flooding the market with cheap LCDs, think again. TCL CSOT (and BOE right behind them) are going hard on printing OLED, AI integration, and keeping LCD alive with Mini-LED tricks. The center of gravity in displays is still very much in China, and events like this are their way of reminding everyone who runs the show now.
Honestly, if you're sourcing panels or building anything with a screen in 2026, you probably left that room either excited or a little scared – depending on which side of the supply chain you're on
