Royole

Royole Introduction

Founded by Stanford engineering graduates in 2012, Royole's mission is to improve the way people interact with and perceive their world. The company creates and manufactures next-generation human-machine interface technologies and products including advanced flexible displays, flexible sensors, and smart devices. Technology milestones include the world's thinnest full-color AMOLED flexible displays and flexible sensors (2014), the world's first foldable 3D mobile theater (2015), the world's first curved car dashboard based on flexible electronics (2016), the first smart writing pad, RoWrite, based on flexible sensors (2017), and the volume production of Royole's quasi-G6 mass production campus for fully flexible displays (2018).

Royole has received numerous global awards for its technological innovations and fast growth. Holding over 2000 IPs, it provides IP licenses, services, mass production, and solutions for flexible electronics applications with its novel "Flexible+" platform. Royole, backed by leaders in global finance, has begun producing fully flexible displays in volume from its 1.1-million-square-foot quasi-G6 mass production campus in Shenzhen, China with a total investment of $1.7B. Royole has offices in Fremont, CA, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen, China.

Royole Corporation

Industry	Foldable Smartphone; Flexible Electronics including Flexible Displays and Flexible Sensors
Founded	2012 (2012)
Fate	To improve the way people interact with and perceive the world
Headquarters	Fremont, California , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Total assets	US$5 Billion (2018) for Series E round
Number of employees	>2000
Website	www.royole.com

Core Technologies and Products

FlexPai, Foldable Smartphone

On October 31, 2018, Royole Corporation introduced the world’s first commercial foldable smartphone, a combination of mobile phone and tablet with a flexible screen, the Royole FlexPai. Disrupting consumers’ traditional concept of a smartphone, the unit can be used either folded or unfolded, giving it the portability of a smartphone plus the screen size of a high-definition tablet. The FlexPai foldable smartphone is based on Royole’s Flexible+ platform, which can be easily integrated into a variety of products and applications across numerous industries.

Continuing Royole’s tradition of combining art and technology in its products, the FlexPai is elegantly designed with multiple form factors. When unfolded, FlexPai supports split-screen mode and multi-tasking; supports drag-and-drop across applications, enabling it to share features just as a computer does; automatically adjusts screen sizes; and provides enjoyable video-watching and gaming experiences.

When folded, FlexPai can support dual screens with separate, simultaneous operations. The interface on the primary and secondary screens can mutually interact with each other, or independently use different interfaces without interfering with one another. Users can also get notifications on the edge screen side bar, which can be used to manage calls, messages, and other notices that may disturb the primary and secondary screen usage.

The FlexPai’s screen is one complete, fully flexible display with light, thin, colorful, and bendable features. Using Royole’s innovative and proprietary technologies ensures the FlexPai’s stability, reliability, and long life span, which have been fully verified by the company. FlexPai has passed bending, twisting, and tension tests over 200,000 times. The FlexPai can also be folded at different angles. On the software side, its unique Water OS automatically adapts different viewing modes for different folding angles and user scenarios, such as taking photos, office usage, video watching, gaming, and more.

FlexPai uses Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8-series flagship SoC, integrating most powerful AI and most advanced chip process technology. Its camera set-up is made up of a 20-megapixel telephoto lens, and a 16-megapixel wide-angle lens, that can be used for both normal photo shooting or taking a selfie, thanks to the dual view camera mode. Fast-charge is powered by the company’s own Ro-Charge technology, which delivers a speed increase of 40%. Other features are also readily available on the device, including expandable storage with MicroSD, fingerprint ID, USB-C charging, stereo speakers, and more.

Flexible Display

In 2014, Royole introduced the world’s thinnest full-color flexible display with a thickness of only 0.01 mm and a bending radius of 1 mm. Royole’s innovative flexible display technology covers all aspects of display manufacturing including materials, processing, devices, circuit design, software development, and more. Due to its light, flexible, ultra-thin characteristics, Royole’s flexible display technology has received global recognition for its profound influence on a variety of industries such as Consumer Electronics (e.g. smartphones, tablets, and wearable devices), Smart Transportation, Smart Home, Sports and Fashion, Office and Education, Robotics, and more.

Flexible Sensor

Royole has successfully developed and mass-produced flexible sensor on transparent, flexible and ultra-thin film. Royole’s flexible sensor technology is not only developed with new materials and processes, but also designed to deliver unmatched performance and excellent flexibility. Compared with conventional touch panel fabrications, Royole’s flexible sensors offer the benefits of high flexibility, low cost, short production cycles, top performance, and can be manufactured in a variety of shapes and sizes, for applications in different industries such as Consumer Electronics, Smart Transportation, Smart Home, Sports and Fashion, Office and Education, Robotics, and more. At CES 2017, Royole introduced several new flexible sensor products. Royole’s Smart Backpack was named a CES 2017 Innovation Awards Honoree in the Fitness, Sports and Biotech.

“Flexible+” Products and Solutions

In 2017, Royole introduced the “Flexible+” technology platform featuring its groundbreaking flexible electronics. The “Flexible+” platform created opportunities across a variety of applications and was integrated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet-of-Things (IoT). To date, Royole has built partnerships in multiple industries and continually introduces new products to both B2B and B2C markets. The “Flexible+” technology platform delivers unique new designs and consumer experiences with profound influence on diverse industries such as Consumer Electronics (e.g. smartphones, tablets, and wearable devices), Smart Transportation, Smart Home, Sports and Fashion, Office and Education, Robotics, and more.