
TOKYO If one company symbolizes the decline of Japan's once-dominant display industry, it is Japan Display. The manufacturer's continued allegiance to LCDs at a time when OLED technology -- and the South Korean companies that have embraced it -- are ascendant has brought loss after loss.
The problems at the cash-strapped JDI, as the company is also known, got a lot worse when Apple, which accounted for over half of its sales last fiscal year, suddenly decided to use OLEDs for its products.