Sapien Semiconductors CEO Myunghee Lee said on Wednesday that the company aims to turn a profit next year while reaching an annual revenue of 10 billion won this year.Lee noted that the company is expected to announce three more orders it received in the second half of the year, the CEO said in an i

South Korea’s Raontech said on Monday that its liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) display will be used on Avegant’s upcoming smart glass launching this year.Avegant is an augmented reality optics firm and is developing an AI smart glass with Qualcomm and Applied Materials.Raontec has shown off its low

The application of blue phosphorescent material can reduce the power consumption of OLED display panels by 25%, Universal Display Corp Vice President of Business Development Mike Hack told TheElec in an interview.UDC’s plan to start producing blue phosphorescent material in 2024, which it previously

Inkjet printing solution company Enjet was aiming to apply inkjet technology to battery and semiconductor production, CEO Doyoung Byun said.The company was also aiming to develop a multi-nozzle to challenge Japan’s dominance in inkjet head, he said in an interview TheElec.Enjet, which went public la

Samsung Display has started the development of LED on silicon (LEDoS) microdisplay technology for applications in augmented reality (AR) devices.Samsung Display Vice President and Head of Technology Strategy Team Gong Min Kim believed that in the coming future, LEDoS will replace OLED on silicon (OL

Inkjet printing solution firm Enjet’s earnings this year will again be determined by Samsung and Samsung Display.Enjet, which listed on Kosdaq last year, is aiming for an annual revenue of 44.8 billion won and an operating profit of 18.2 billion won, sources said.These goals are higher by 2 times an

Samsung has already spent around 200 billion won in preparation to start manufacturing silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors.Sources said the spending amount shows that the tech giant can already manufacture prototypes of certain chips.SiC and GaN are being used in the lates

Chinese display giant CSOT is continuing to postpone the installation of equipment at its T5 factory dedicated to Gen 6 liquid crystal display (LCD) panel production, TheElec has learned.This is despite company chairman Li Dongsheng making a personal visit to South Korea during the summer when he as

A Samsung Display executive said on Friday that MicroLED displays will likely be used over OLED display panels in augmented reality (AR) devices.Samsung Display group leader Kim Min-woo said at MicroLED Display Workshop industry event in Seoul that this was because high luminance, or brightness, was

Samsung has begun production of 89-inch MicroLED TVs during the third quarter, TheElec has learned.It is the tech giant’s first MicroLED TV that uses low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) thin-film transistor (TFT) glass substrates instead of the printed circuit boards used in prior models.

Samsung is planning to begin production of its new MicroLED TVs that use low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) thin-film transistors (TFT) during the third quarter, TheElec has learned.They will be the tech giant’s first MicroLED TVs that use LTPS TFT instead of printed circuit boards (PCB)

Research into MicroLED technology was active in the US, Taiwan and Europe while there was none done by South Korean companies or institutes, a South Korean professor noted during a display industry conference in Seoul.Speaking at the 2022 SID Review Workshop, Korea University professor Hong Moon-pyo

Samsung Display has postponed the installation of a pilot line for its next-generation quantum dot nanorod LED (QNED) display panel, TheElec has learned.The technology uses tick-shaped nanorod LEDs as the light source, with multiple units of them representing one pixel on a screen, and if commercial

Samsung has delayed the start of production for the 89-inch version of its MicroLED TVs, TheElec has learned.The model was originally planned to start production in May along with the 101-inch model.But the production timeline for the 89-inch model has been pushed back to the third quarter of this y

Philoptics was testing its OLED fine metal mask (FMM) with a Chinese panel maker, the company’s CEO said.During its annual shareholders’ meeting, Philoptics CEO Han Ki-su said the evaluation process, which started late last year, will take approximately a year to complete.This means Philoptics will

Samsung’s market share in the premium TV market last year dropped slightly while those of LG’s increased, according to analyst firm Omdia.Omdia said Samsung Electronics' market share in TVs US$2,500 or higher priced dropped by 3.3 points last year from a year prior.The company, the world’s largest T

Display equipment maker SFA said on Tuesday that it has recorded 1.56 trillion won in revenue and 188.9 billion won in operating profit for the entire year of 2021.Revenue was level to that of 2020 while operating profit jumped 12.91%.Its subsidiary SFA contributed 641.1 billion won in revenue and 6

Samsung is planning to begin production of new MicroLED TVs in May with lowered price tags, TheElec has learned.The company’s first 110-inch MicroLED launched last year had a price tag of 170 million won.But Samsung is planning to lower this by around 40% to 100 million won for its new 89-inch and 1

Dongwoon Anatech was supplying its closed-loop autofocus driver IC to Xiaomi for the latter’s augmented reality (AR) glasses, TheElec has learned.The chip is used to control where the lens is during camera focusing.An open-loop driver sends electricity to the voice coil motor. It is cheaper to make

Samsung and LG on Monday unveiled new TVs at CES 2022, which will run from January 5 to 7 at Las Vegas.Samsung said its new MicroLED TVs will come in 110-inch, 101-inch and 89-inch sizes.MicroLED TVs are comprised of micrometer-sized LEDs, usually under 100 micrometers individually, that act as pixe