2023: It won’t be great, it won’t be awful

Bob Raikes, editor emeritus, JPR’s Display Daily It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Now it’s going to be the ‘meh’ of times (hmmm… I didn’t quite rise to the level of Dickens there!). Because of the special working and learning conditions of Covid, 2021 was the best year ever for LCD and OLED makers in revenues and profits. However, macroeconomics, Covid lockdowns, Putin, and inflation combined to make 2022 the worst year on record, with record-low panel prices, weak demand, and what DSCC called “a train wreck of inventory.” Even OLED makers, which have