Samsung SDI has successfully turned over a new leaf in its polarizing film (POL) business. Hit by sluggish operation rates and intensifying market competition, the Samsung affiliate had at one time considered undergoing restructuring.But thanks to a combo of positive factors, the firm is now expecte

LG Display is talking with major Chinese TV maker Skyworth on selling open cell OLED panels, according to industry sources.Market watchers had expected the display maker to begin celling open cell panels as it starts running the large-sized OLED plants in China’s Guangzhou. The plant is scheduled to

Samsung Display is on the verge of launching its so-called ‘Project C,’ which involves investing in large-sized OLED panels for televisions, according to industry sources on July 12.“Samsung Display could open its investment deliberation committee as soon as this month to reach a decision,” one of t

LG Electronics is in talks with BOE on buying smartphone OLED panels from the Chinese display maker, according to industry sources on July 1. This means there’s a good chance that the new smartphones from LG next year would be fitted with BOE’s OLED screens.For LG Display, this isn’t good news becau

LG Display’s second quarter operating losses are expected to deepen from the first quarter after failing to close a deal for supplying OLED panels to Huawei’s P30 Pro smartphones, according to financial sector sources on June 18.LG will have to shoulder most of the costs involved, they forecast, sin

LG Display has brought in TFT deposition equipment earlier than expected for 10.5th generation OLED lines at its P10 plant in Paju of Gyeonggi Province to help prep for mass production, sources close to the matter said on June 12.The equipment is mainly manufactured by US-based Applied Materials, wi

Samsung Display, the world’s largest OLED producer, is finding it difficult to develop large-sized OLED panels for next generation TVs, sources said on June 10."Samsung is apparently struggling with the product concept, and the designs for the materials deposition equipment is now undergoing change,

South Korea’s LG Display will supply the LCD panels for the Apple Pro Display XDR monitor launched at the annual WWDC 2019 earlier this week, according to sources close to the matter on June 5.The Pro Display XDR is the first monitor brand Apple released since it stopped manufacturing the Thunderbol

LG Display will be rolling out 48-inch OLED TVs in 2020, according to a top executive.“It’s a strategy to solidify our footing in the high-end TV market, while continuing to have presence in the standard and premium segments,” Oh Chang-ho, the South Korean display-maker’s vice president of the TV bu

Samsung Display is looking to diversify its portfolio of ACF (Anisotropic Conductive Film) suppliers, according to industry sources on May 27.ACF is a core part of display technology, indicating adhesive material used to connect display panels such as LCDs and OLEDs with electronic circuits.The disp

Samsung SDI has sold off a unit that manufactures ACF (Anisotropic Conductive Film), a key material connecting display panels and electronic circuits, to Kukdo Chemical, according to industry sources on May 24.They said the deal was inked between Samsung and Kukdo 10 days ago on May 14, after almost

Lim Jung-Han, Director of the High-Performance Display Division of Corning, said, "We started mass production of ‘Astra’, a new glass substrate, in March of this year. In the second half of the year, TVs made with the display panel containing the substrate glass will be available." Director Lim also

Samsung Display is in talks with Apple of USA about the supply of display panels for laptops and tablets with thin-film caps (TFE) to rigid OLEDs. The thin-film cap is a method applied to flexible OLEDs. By replacing the conventional glass cap, the thickness of the rigid OLED is reduced. It is a so-

LG Electronics will release an '8K resolution 88-inch OLED TV' in July or August at the latest. The '8K OLED TV' will be released first, and a ‘Rollable TV’ will be put on the market by the end of this year. LG Display's 10.5-generation factory in Paju is officially confirmed to start its operation

JUSUNG Engineering will produce the first domestic 10.5 generation thin film transistor (TFT) vapor deposition CVD equipment. The first customer to be delivered to is LG Display’s 10.5-generation large OLED production line at the P10 plant in Paju, Gyeonggi-do. TFT deposition equipment of higher tha

This month, Charm Engineering will sign a contract to sell its last remaining Vietnamese property. The company plans to focus on its core business, display repair equipment, by organizing the extra businesses started by former largest shareholders and executives. This year, first, the company plans

On the 25th, it was reported that development of Canon Tokki’s deposition equipment for large scaled OLED is in the final stage.Canon Tokki of Japan is producing the 8.5th generation deposition equipment. In the third quarter of this year, it is sheduled to be in stock at Korean customer’s domestic

Sharp, which suddenly stopped its panel supply after being acquired by Foxconn in Taiwan, offered to resume supply of LCD panels for TV to Samsung Electronics earlier this year, only to be rejected.A former executive of the Samsung Electronics Visual Display (VD) Business Department officially comme

Despite the fact that plastics were adopted as the cover window for the foldable smartphones to be mass produced for the first time this year, the glass industry expects that it is highly likely that the material will be switched to glass. It is based on the determination that glass is better than p

Chinese display maker BOE surpassed LG Display in the monthly market share of the large LCD panel market based on the surface size. The display industry has reacted to this change as "happening as expected but sooner than predicted."The IHS Markets reported on the 3rd that BOE topped LG Display to b