Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) will name a new executive vice chairman, TheElec confirmed Friday.Kim Sung-jin, the former president of Gwangju Techno Park, will be elected to the post at KDIA’s board meeting on June 12.Kim will start his tenure on June 15.He passed the national civil exam

A prestigious display industry show to take place in August will likely be canceled.The 20th International Meeting on Information Display, or IMID 2020, that was scheduled to take place from August 26 to 28 will likely be canceled as companies are minimizing employee activities in light of the COVID

Worldwide TV market will contract 9% this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) said Thursday.Total shipment in 2020 will be 233 million units, down 9.2% from 2019, the research firm said.LCD TV will drop 9.6% from a year ago to 229.4 million units, while OLED TV

Clamshell will be the most popular form of foldable smartphones from now up until 2025, a market research firms said Wednesday. The form has been currently commercialized by Samsung Electronics and Motorola.This year, 3 million units of clamshell-type panels for smartphones will be shipped, accordin

LG Display is aiming to supply up to 20 million units of mobile OLED display panels to Apple for the iPhone 12 series, sources within the company told TheElec.Cupertio is expected to order 75 million units for its upcoming smartphones launching later this year. Samsung Display is expected to supply

Samsung Display will use a circular electrode structure for the pixels of its QNED, or quantum dot nanorod LED, displays, a South Korean research firm claims.UBI Research said Monday it analyzed 41 patents of the company, sorting out and analyzing the most complete of them, in a new report called QN

Samsung Electronics has set quotation requests for OLED display panels to Chinese giant BOE for use in its Galaxy S series planned for next year, sources within the company told TheElec Wednesday.The South Korean tech behemoth recently sent request for quotation, or RFQ, to BOE, the first step for a

Global shipments of fingerprint-on-display (FoD) grew by near eight times in 2019 and will grow even larger in 2020, according to market research firm Omdia.A total of 228.3 million FoD sensors were shipped in 2019, an increase by 674 percent from the 29.5 million moved in 2018.This will be further

LIS will supply equipment used in producing OLED to Chinese display giant BOE, the company announced.The Korean laser equipment company will supply 48 billion won worth of equipment.The size of the deal is 33.05% of LIS’s annual sale of 2019 and a huge win for the firm.The supply deal will last from

Samsung Display will be increasing its shipment of LCD monitor panels by up to 40% on-year despite shutting down most of its LCD panel lines, according to industry sources and market research firm Omdia on May 14.The decision comes based on market research showing a spike in demand for monitors for

Japan’s JDI beat out rivals such as LG Display to serve as the sole supplier of the initial batch of LCD panels for Apple’s latest version of its iPhone SE smartphones due out next month, according to industry sources on April 27. Sharp – which was acquired by Taiwan’s Foxconn – will later on add to

Chinese display maker BOE shipped seven times as many OLED panels in 2019 compared to the year earlier in an indication of the company’s robust entry into the market, according to market research firm Omdia on April 17.Last year, BOE shipped 39.1 million OLED panels. Among them, 22.1 million were ri

China’s Everdisplay Optronics is expanding its territory in the rigid OLED panel market for laptops and tablets. In particular, the company is directly competing against Samsung Display over supplying laptops and tablet PCs for Huawei Technologies, according to industry sources on April 7.The panel

Chinese display makers CEC Panda and HKC may be placed on the selling block on account of mounting financial difficulties triggered by a glut of LCD panels and declining prices, according to industry sources on April 9.The two firms may be acquired by other Chinese panel makers such as CSOT and BOE

Doosan Solus was the sole supplier of high-refraction CPL for the OLED panels fitted in Samsung’s Galaxy S20 series to help improve the energy efficiency by up to 7% of the flagship smartphones, according to industry sources on April 3.With the deal, Doosan Solus is now more likely to take the lead

Samsung Display will be shuttering its LCD business for good before the year is out, according to industry sources on April 1.Some of the lines, such as the Gen-7 here in Korea will be refurbished to produce OLED and QD panels. Since 2019, the display maker has been switching its LCD L8 line in Sout

Samsung Display and BOE supplied OLED panels for the Black Shark 3, the world’s first 5G-based gaming phone, according to industry sources on April 2.Released in China on March 3, the Black Shark 3 series consists of a standard 6.6-inch screen model and a 7.1-inch Pro model. The standard model was f

Huawei Technologies has applied flexible OLED displays to its entire lineup of flagship smartphones in an apparent bid to step up competition against Samsung.Industry sources said on April 1 that Huawei has applied the panels to all three of its P40 series that it launched last week. This marks the

Sunic System is expecting to land more orders for its micro-OLED deposition equipment beginning this year, according to the company’s founder on Mar. 23.Park Jae-gyu said at the company’s regular shareholders’ meeting at Gyeonggi Province that based on the firm’s market leadership, he believes this

LG Display is expected begin mass production from its Guangzhou plant in China manufacturing large-sized OLED panels in May this year, according to industry sources on Mar. 16.This is about 3 months behind schedule, largely triggered by the spread of the coronavirus that put plant facilities on hold