Samsung is expected to begin selling OLED TVs with panels provided by LG Display in September, analyst UBI Research said in its forecast on Thursday.UBI Research CEO Choong Hoon Yi said during a conference hosted by the analyst firm in Busan, South Korea that LG Display is expected to manufacture up

Samsung Electronics and LG Display’s ongoing negotiation over the supply of TV OLED panels was focused on budge OLED panels, TheElec has learned.Samsung, the world’s largest TV manufacturer by revenue, is launching OLED TVs this year after a 9-year hiatus and is procuring OLED panels from Samsung Di

LG Display is considering a variety of OLED technologies for when it launches OLED panels dedicated to monitors, a company executive said.The South Korean display panel maker was reviewing both white-OLED (W-OLED) and red, green and blue-OLED (RGB-OLED) for OLED panels aimed at monitors in the 30-in

BOE is planning to build a Gen 8.6 (2250x2600mm) IT OLED panel production line at its B16 factory in the city of Chengdu in Sichuan Province, China, TheElec has learned.The Chinese display panel giant is planning to have the line have a production capacity of 15,000 substrates per month and start pr

Haesung Optics will be supplying a component to Samsung Electronics needed to make the optical image stabilization (OIS) actuator used smartphone camera modules, TheElec has learned. The component maker will be supplying a component called sub, which will be provided to another camera module supplie

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 is expected to continue procuring most of the hinges it will use for its upcoming foldable phones from South Korean vendor KH Vatec, TheElec has learned.The hinges are used to connect either side of the folding display panels. It also protects them from external shock.KH Vatec had been the e

South Korea’s printed circuit board (PCB) market is expected to grow 7% this year from 2021 led by high demand for chip boards, according to the Korea Printed Circuit Association (KPCA).The local PCB market is expected to be worth 16.255 trillion won, the association said.Revenue from chip board wil

Printed circuit board (PCB) maker BH said on Monday that it will acquire LG Electronics’ in-car handset wireless charging business unit.BH will be forming a new subsidiary called BH EVS that will acquire all sales rights from the business unit for 136.7 billion won. The acquisition will be completed

Corning said on Tuesday that it has supplied its Astra Glass to Samsung Display for use in quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels.Each QD-OLED panel uses two sheets of the glasses: one for the thin-film transistor and another for the QD layer.Samsung Display’s QD-OLED panel will be used in TVs made by Samsung

Samsung Display was currently developing a new under panel camera technology for its customer Apple to hide the Face ID under the display in the next iPhone, TheElec has learned.Samsung Display’s technology is expected to apply first to Samsung Electronics’ foldable phones launching next year, follo

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Monday that it will spend 300 billion won to expand its flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) factory at Busan.The new spending plan comes atop the 1.3 trillion won investment the company announced earlier in December to build an FC-BGA facility at its plant in Vietnam

LG Display has been evaluating the deposition process for Gen 8.5 (2200x2500mm) OLED panels since December last year, TheElec has learned.The evaluation is being done at its supplier Sunic System’s facility at Paju, sources said. The facility houses Sunic System’s Gen 8.5 half-cut and vertical depos

Samsung Electro-Mechanics was considering expanding its production capacity for flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA), its CEO said on Wednesday.Company CEO Chang Duck-hyun said during Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ annual shareholders’ meeting that the company was in talks with an unspecified customer to

OLED material startup Lordin said on Tuesday that it has filed a patent related to blue OLED technology with high light emission efficiency.Company CEO Oh Hyoung-yun said the technology offers high-efficiency and a longer life span for the blue OLED materials used in OLED panels.Lordin was aiming to

Display glass processing firm Kglass said it can now support processing for ultra-thin glass (UTG) up to 20-inch in size.UTG are used as cover windows in foldable displays. Kglass said it has built a processing system for the glasses at its plant in Gimcheon, North Gyeongsang Province.The plant can

LG Electronics was planning to license out its patents related to smartphone and mobile technologies, TheElec has learned.The company has been reviewing various ways to use these patents since it exited the smartphone business last year.LG Electronics holds some 20,000 patents related 4G, 5G, Wi-Fi

Chinese display giant BOE was in talks with smartphone brand Honor to manufacture a two-stack tandem OLED panel to apply to a smartphone planned for later this year, TheElec has learned.The pair believe that the use of the technology, where the OLED panel has two emission layers, can reduce the powe

LG Display was currently developing two models of OLED panels that it aiming to supply to Apple’s iPads launching in the future, TheElec has learned.LG Display was developing 12.9-inch and 11-inch models, sources said. The company was the exclusive developer of the 12.9-inch model, they said.Samsung