Samsung Display has put in the equipment necessary to produce Quantum Dot (QD) displays at its factory in South Korea.The company held a ceremony on Wednesday commemorating putting the equipment in at its plant in Asan.Last year in October, Samsung Display announced that it was exiting the Liquid Cr

China’s polarizer market will be controlled by local companies that will have a combined market share of 80% next year, market research firm Omdia says.This is mostly from Chinese material firm Shanshan’s planned acquisition of LG Chem’s Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) polarizer business.The deal will

APS Holdings and Philoptics are expected to compete fiercely to stay on a key government-backed fine metal mask (FMM) project.The project run by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, is done to develop FMM sticks that will be applied to future generation OLED production. FMM is used to deposit

Chinese display giant BOE is aiming to win Apple’s order for display panels, for both of its OLED factory lines, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Tuesday.The company operates two OLED lines __ the B11 line and B7 line __ at Sichuan, China. It is planning to use both lines for a potent

LG Display will supply miniLED panels to Apple for the new iPad Pro launching later in the year, sources within the company told TheElec on Monday.It will be the South Korean display panel maker’s first miniLED supply deal to its long-time client Apple.LG Display will supply 12.9-inch miniLED panels

Large-area thin-film transistor (TFT) display market will show marginal growth in 2020 as it begins recovering from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the second quarter, market research firm Omdia said.Global large-area TFT display unit shipments in 2020 are expected to total 771.6 million unit

Samsung Electronics has canceled the development of its low-tier Galaxy M41 smartphone, sources told TheElec on Tuesday.TheElec first reported that Samsung was planning to use CSOT’s OLED panels for the first time in the Galaxy M41.But following the report, sources within the company said Samsung ha

Samsung Display’s low power display technology that it plans to apply to future smart devices is called “HOP”, TheElec confirmed on Tuesday.HOP is short for hybrid oxide and polycrystalline silicon. Samsung is currently developing its own low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) thin-film transi

LG Display has changed its company goal for the first time in eight years, the South Korean display panel maker said on Tuesday.The new goal will “The Best Display Solution Company”. LG said it reflected the company’s desire to provide customers with the best service, process, system and talent.The

Samsung Electronics will use Chinese vendor CSOT’s organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel for its upcoming Galaxy M41 smartphone, TheElec confirmed on Monday.It will mark the first time that the South Korean tech giant uses OLED panels not produced by affliate Samsung Display for its Galaxy serie

Worldwide flat panel display equipment market plummeted 41% year over year in the first quarter of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, market research firm Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) says.It was also a 30% drop from the fourth quarter. The 29 listed companies combined posted revenues of

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