Samsung is yet to launch the 99-inch version of its MicroLED TV.This is despite the company saying earlier in the year that it will do so in the first half of the year.Samsung had also said it plans to launch 88-inch and 76-inch versions of MicroLED TV within the year.A Samsung spokesperson said thi

Apple used more OLED panels in its smartphones compared to Samsung in the first half of the year, data from UBI Research showed.It is highly like that Cupertino will overtake its South Korean rival in OLED smartphone shipment this year due to the upcoming launch of iPhone 13.Out of the total smartph

LG Display will restart its spending on an OLED line __ E6-3 __ dedicated to customer Apple next month at the earliest, TheElec has learned.It will be a resumption in three years and eight months. The company had delayed its spending plan on E6-3 back in 2017.LG Display is projected to spend over 1

Samsung Display was considering manufacturing thin-film transistors (TFT) that will be used in Micro LED TVs made by Samsung Electronics, TheElec has learned.The South Korean display maker has formed a team to oversee the project, sources said. This team was formed in April and the project is called

There will likely be a shortage of large-sized OLED panels used in TVs starting in 2024, UBI Research CEO Choong Hoon Yi said.Yi based his forecast on the production capacity for large-sized OLED panels and t here expected demand going forward.Demand for large-sized OLED panels is expected to be aro

OLED is widely used in smartphones and smart watches, but hardly in IT applications, or for tablets, notebooks and monitors. Liquid crystal display (LCD) is still the dominant panel used in non-smartphone products.South Korean display equipment maker had hoped for Samsung Display and LG Display to e

Major Chinese phone brands are expected to supply ultra-thin glasses (UTG) as voer windows for their upcoming foldable smartphones, TheElec has learned.Samsung was the first to shift away from polyimide films to glasses for the cover windows on its foldable smartphones.The company’s original Galaxy

Samsung Display has increased its shipment target for notebook OLED panels this year.The company originally aimed to ship over four million units but increased this to between 5.5 million to six million units, people familiar with the matter said.This is 40% to 50% higher than its initial target.The

The increase in liquid crystal display (LCD) TV panel prices that started last year has slowed down in July this year, according to data from market research firm WitsView.LCD TV panel prices only increased up to 0.3% from the first half of July (1 to 15) from the second half of June (16 to 30).The

Display equipment maker Avaco has begun talks with LG Display over the specifications of the sputters that will be used to manufacture low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) thin-film transistor (TFT) OLED production, TheElec has learned.LG Display will likely give the order from the equipment

Apple will launch two new models of iPads that use OLED panels in 2023, TheElec has learned.Cupertino will launch its first ever OLED iPad in 2022. The tablet will sport a 10.86-inch OLED screen. Samsung Display will be the sole supplier of the OLED panels.The following year, in 2023, Apple is plann

OLED panels will be used in 39.8% of smartphones this year and 45% in 2022, according to market research firm TrendForce.This is thanks to wider adoption of the panels by major smartphone brands such as Apple and Samsung, the firm said.But OLED display driver IC supply is currently unable to meet de

Samsung Display and LG Display are expected to spend conservatively on expanding their OLED production capacities in the second half of the year, according to multiple sources working at South Korean equipment makers.There are some expectations that the pair may start investing more on OLED panels f

For South Korea to localize the production of fine metal mask (FMM) used in the production of organic light emitting diode (OLED), companies developing ways to manufacture FMM need to secure technologies to make the masks thinner and the rolling process used during their production, according to UBI

Automotive display shipment is expected to reach 238 million units in 2030, according to market research firm Omdia.This is an average growth of 6.5% per year from 2020, in which 127 million units were shipped. According to Omdia’s forecast, exterior mirrors (or emirror) and head-up displays will sh

Shipment of flexible OLED panels will be around 57 million units in the second quarter this year, a drop of 35% from the previous quarter, according to market research firm Omdia.The drop is due to the second quarter being the off-season and declining shipment of Apple’s iPhones.Flexible OLED shipme

China topped the automotive display market in 2020, according to Omdia.The country held a market share of over 30%, surpassing Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.Chinese panel maker BOE began making automotive liquid crystal display (LCD) panel for the first time in 2012.Omdia pointed out that China was

US company Corning will supply ultra-thin glass (UTG) for Samsung’s foldable smartphones, according to market research firm Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) on Monday.Corning will be a secondary supplier of UTG for the South Korean company’s foldable phones launching in the second half of 202

China’s display market was worth 446 billion yuan in 2020, according to local media FDDisplay.This was a 19.7% year-on-year growth, according to the report, and equals 40.3% of worldwide market share.As of the end of 2020, there was in total 35 display panel lines (of over Gen 6 substrates), the rep

Solus Advanced Materials said on Monday that it will be supplying hole transport layer (HTL) to LG Display for use in OLED panels.OLED panels are comprised of layers for electric current movements and layers that emit light.HTL is one of the layers that electricity flows through and determines the l