Whether Samsung Display will commence its second stage spending on its quantum dot (QD)-OLED display panel this year as planned will be determined by the yield rate of its Q1 production line, according to market research firm Omdia.The company had planned to commence its second stage spending near t

The OLED materials market will grow 40% this year to be worth US$1.754 billion in 2021, according to market research firm Omdia.This is substantially higher than the 16% growth rate in 2020.Omdia’s data combines materials used for white OLED made by LG Display, quantum dot (QD)-OLED made by Samsung

Samsung Display is planning to produce a prototype of a TV that uses its quantum dot organic light emitting diode (QD-OLED) panel in June, TheElec has learned.The company is also planning to produce a QD-OLED monitor prototype as well. These prototypes will be sent to potential customers such as Sam

Display equipment maker JASTech said on Tuesday that it will start a new business for diagnosis kits.The new business is aimed at a post-pandemic era, the company said, as it expected demand for diagnosis kit to grow due to the increased interest in health.JASTech currently relies heavily on display

Display equipment maker Philoptics will aim to supply fab equipment for new growth, the company CEO said on Monday at its shareholders’ meeting.Philoptics CEO Han Ki-soo said the company was preparing to manufacture and supplying wafer bonding equipment and was aiming to win an order for them within

EO Technics CEO Sung Kyu-dong said on Friday that the uptick in the global semiconductor and printed circuit board (PCB) markets will help the company’s growth in 2021.The increase demand for chips will continue to help the company’s growth, the CEO said at its shareholders’ meeting.EO Technics was

Wonik IPS is always open to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and the company will need to secure additional processes to compete with world-class companies, a company executive told TheElec on Thursday.The executive, who was speaking after Wonik IPS’ shareholders’ meeting, said while it wasn’t reviewi

South Korean display equipment maker Hims is aiming to reduce its reliance on OLED equipment this year from sales in new areas.Hims CEO JH Kim said at its shareholders’ meeting on Wednesday that the company has been preparing to enter the semiconductor equipment and software businesses for the past

Samsung Display’s OLED panel shipment dropped 9% in January from the previous month to 45 million units, according to market research firm Omdia.Low sales of iPhone 12 Mini was the cause, the firm said.Apple launched four models in its iPhone 12 series last year. As a whole, the series recorded stro

Semes’ talks to sell its display equipment business unit to Wonik IPS for 82 billion won has failed.Wonik IPS said on Friday that the pair’s contract for the deal signed on August 31 has been canceled and they were no longer in talks.The company said Semes, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, calle

Samsung Display was reviewing potential investments to expand its production of organic light emitting diode (OLED) for notebooks, according to UBI ResearchSpeaking at an online conference on Thursday, UBI Research CEO Choong Hoon Yi also said Samsung Electronics will unlikely to use Samsung Display

Display panel manufacturers TCL and Innolux have said they are expecting supply of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels to be tight throughout the year.TCL chairman Li Dongsheng said at a media briefing last week that the shortage in panels will continue in the first half of 2021. The situation for t

Interests for virtual reality, augmented reality and extended reality __ which combines the two, know as XR __ remain strong.However, what direction XR will develop technologically remain uncertain. And despite some industrial applications, a mass market XR consumer devices seem far away from realit

AP Systems have won orders for display production equipment from Chinese display maker Tianma for the latter’s flexible OLED factory.The company was among 21 South Korean companies that won a total of 44 ordres for equipment for use by the Chinese company for its Gen 6 OLED factory at Xiamen, data f

Earnings of South Korean display equipment manufacturer Leading Edge Technology (LET) in 2021 will rely on how much foldable smartphones Samsung can ship.LET is Samsung Display’s exclusive supplier of laminator, used to stack ultra-thin glasses that act as cover windows on the foldable panels.The co

APS Materials and Poongwon Precision has been chosen to lead a government-backed project to develop fine metal mask (FMM).The companies beat Philoptics and Olum Materials to be chosen to lead the project given by South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. APS will lead the development of

Samsung Display was currently developing in-folding foldable OLED panels to supply to Oppo, Xiaomi and Google, TheElec has learned.Smartphones using these panels will launch within the year.The panel for Oppo folds from top to bottom __ it is an in-folding clamshell type. It is sized 7.7-inch unfold

3D cover glass manufacturer JNTC will begin production of cover glass for wearable in the first half of 2021, TheElec has learned.It will be the company’s first mass production of cover glass for wearable devices.JNTC’s third factory in Vietnam for the glasses is expected to be completed in April, w

BOE is planning to commercially launch a MicroOLED display in the second half of 2021, TheElec has learned.The panel will be applied to products that support augmented reality and virtual reality viewing.BOE had been developing MicroOLED since 2018 through Kunming BOE Display Technology, its joint v

Prices of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels will remain high up to the second quarter of 2021 due to the recent fire yet AGC’s glass substrate manufacturing plant in South Korea, market research firms say.Prior to the fire, research firms pointed that price increases of LCD will make a downturn in