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Samsung’s OLED tech gives the Ferrari Luce a dashboard unlike anything in a car before
Samsung’s OLED tech gives the Ferrari Luce a dashboard unlike anything in a car before-May 2024
2026-05-26 EDT 02:11:26

Ferrari just unveiled the Luce, its first all-electric car, and its design has been really divisive. Designed by former Apple design chief Jony Ive, the car is definitely turning heads, and not all for the right reasons.

That said, while the exterior design is controversial, very few people can deny that the cars interior is unlike anything you have seen before. One of the first things that stands out is the futuristic display aesthetic.

Recommended Videos I think the dashboard deserves its own spotlight. Samsung Display is exclusively powering the Luces interior with four OLED panels, and what they have pulled off here is genuinely cool.

  So what makes this dashboard so special?

The star of the show is the drivers binnacle, the cluster in front of you that displays speed and driving information. Ferrari and Samsung have stacked two OLED panels on top of each other, a 12-inch panel on the bottom and a 12.9-inch panel on top.

The upper panel has three circular cutouts that let you see the display underneath, while physical mechanical hands move in the gap between the two panels. It looks digital, but it feels analogue, and thats the whole point. I have not seen this in any car before, and its generally awe-inspiring.

The other two displays are a 10.1-inch panel in the central control panel, which also has mechanical hands rotating through tiny cutouts in real time, and a 6.3-inch screen for rear passengers to control climate settings and check driving information.

I also love the buttons on the secondary display to control fan speed, temperature, and seat heating. The way these physical buttons interact with the digital UI is genuinely cool.

  How did Samsung pull this off?

Making large cutouts in an active display area without ruining the image quality is hard. The hole in the Ferrari Luces binnacle measures around 100mm across, which is about 20 times larger than the tiny front camera hole on our smartphones. That makes it extremely difficult to route signals around the opening without causing distortion or delays.

Samsungs HIAA (Hole in Active Area) technology solves this by optimizing each signal design individually, so the image stays uniform and stable across the entire display regardless of the hole size.

Whatever Samsung did to achieve this, it clearly worked. I saw some demos of the cars interior, and the displays look crisp and sharp. Who knew one of the most exciting parts of a brand new Ferrari cars design in 2026 would be the dashboard.

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