Your next laptop could reach new heights of brightness as Samsung introduces new OLED panels for Lenovo, Asus, MSI and Dell machines

Samsung announces new OLED panels for laptops, capable of ‘1,600 nits’ peak brightness
New tandem OLED panels have a 40% higher brightness requirement than older single-layer OLED panels
The new panels will be used in MSI, Lenovo, Asus and Dell laptops with the latest DisplayHDR True Black 1400 certification.

OLED panels continually improve with each passing year, as Samsung’s recent tandem OLED displays show – and luckily, the tech giant isn’t resting on its laurels.

As reported by TweakTown, Samsung has introduced new tandem OLED panels for Lenovo, Asus, MSI and Dell laptops, with a peak brightness of 1,600 nits in small windows. This will apply to laptops with the latest DisplayHDR True Black 1400 certification.

Notably, certification pushed up to 1,400 nits represents a “40% higher” brightness requirement compared to older single-layer OLED panels, which is ideal for bright rooms and environments.

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This is due to the presence of tandem OLED panels, which work by stacking at least one or more OLED layers, providing significantly increased brightness levels and efficiency.

Samsung says it has begun “large-scale” supply of the new tandem OLED panels for laptops, starting with the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i Aura Edition, and later for laptops from Asus, MSI and Dell.

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The increase to 1,600 nits is a significant improvement for gaming and movie watching experiences on these laptops. While the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i Aura is certainly more of a high-end laptop for creators, it’s also capable of gaming using Nvidia’s RTX 5000 series laptop GPUs.

With this in mind, issues with automatic brightness limitations (ABL) that would often spoil the brightness in gaming or cinema scenarios should now be further reduced, as tandem OLED helps address these drawbacks.

Samsung hasn’t yet mentioned plans to use its new panels for standalone OLED monitors, but naturally that should be the next step once these new laptops launch. For now, there are many OLED gaming monitors (e.g. LG UltraGear OLED 27GX700A) capable of displaying higher nits available in the market.

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