OLED material company Lordin has registered a patent related to blue OLED that has four times the luminance efficiency than previously.Lordin CEO Oh Hyoung-yun told TheElec on Wednesday that the technology on the patent was differentiated from those in the US and Japan.The company was aiming to comm

The CEO of Chinese display giant BOE is visiting Japan for a meeting with those at display production equipment maker Canon Tokki, TheElec has learned.The visit by BOE CEO Gao Wenbao is expected to be made around the middle of the month, sources said.His visit is likely being made to secure earlier

The shipment growth of MiniLED panels is expected to grow up to 2024 but essentially halt from 2025 onward.This is because Apple will be applying OLED panels instead of MiniLED panels for its tablets and then subsequently notebooks, according to analyst firm Display Supply Chain Consultants.MiniLED

LG Electronics is using OLED panels from Samsung Display for its first OLED notebook, TheElec has learned.LG unveiled its Gram Style notebook series this week, which comes in 14-inch and 16-inch models.These two models are currently being manufactured using Samsung Display’s rigid OLED panels, sourc

The Korean CEO of TCL CSOT will step back from management of the Chinese display giant.TCL CSOT CEO Kim Woo-shik, who is also senior vice president of TCL, will leave his current role and become an advisor at TCL.Kim, who previously worked at LG Display before joining the Chinese firm, had been at C

Apple is planning to use hole-display for all four models of its iPhone 15 series, TheElec has learned.Hole-display has a hole in the display panel where the front camera is located, allowing there to be more screens compared to notches.Cupertino applied this technology to two models of its latest i

LG Electronics may launch a transparent OLED TV in 2024 at the earliest, TheElec has learned.LG Display had pitched the idea to the electronics maker earlier this year; but such a model is not slated to launch in 2023, sources said.This is likely due to the demand for consumer electronics such as TV

Samsung Display has changed its priority in the development of Gen 8 IT OLED panels, TheElec has learned.The South Korean company is planning to postpone investments into full-cut, vertical deposition method it had been co-developing for over a year with Japan’s Ulvac.Samsung Display will instead st

LG Display is planning to halt production of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels for TVs in South Korea this month, TheElec has learned.The P7 factory at the company’s facility in Paju, which is responsible for the panels’ production, will halt production within December.The nearby P8 will continue

LG Display is expected to launch large OLED panels with micro lens array technology which will improve brightness and power consumption.The South Korean display panel maker first unveiled a 77-inch 8K OLED panel with the technology and deuterium applied at SID 2022 in May this year.Micro lens array

Spending on display production equipment will drop in 2023 and 2024 compared to this year, according to analyst firm Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC).Spending this year will be US$12 billion but this will drop by 63% to US$4.4 billion next year.This will increase again in 2024 to US$8.3 billi

SFC, the joint venture between Samsung Display and Japanese chemical firm Hodogaya, has succeeded in nullifying a patent related to deuterium used in OLED in South Korea.The patent in question is co-owned by LG Display and Material Science, and was canceled in a ruling by the Intellectual Property T

Samsung Display is supply over 70% of the OLED panels that Apple use for its iPhone 14 series, TheElec has learned.This is thanks to the company’s already dominant position helped by setbacks of rivals LG Display and BOE, sources said.Apple is expected to use over 120 million units of OLED panels fo

The OLED panel that Samsung will use for its Galaxy M54 smartphone launching next year will be developed by Chinese display panel makers BOE and CSOT, TheElec has learned.The Galaxy M series is mostly sold online as a budget model in Southeast Asia.Samsung sells millions of units of the phone but th

LG Display’s plan to invest in OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) production is facing delays.The company was originally expected to place orders for the equipment needed for production sometime in the third quarter.But LG Display is yet to do so and a decision is unlikely until December, sources said.OLEDoS

Samsung Display was considering expanding its quantum dot (QD)-OLED production capacity in order to win orders from Apple for their monitors, according to analyst firm UBI Research.The South Korean display panel maker was considering investing in QD-OLED production at its newly planned factory, like

HB Solution will be supplying quantum dot (QD) inkjet equipment to Samsung Display by the end of this month, TheElec has learned.The equipment will be used to form the QD color conversion layer used in QD-OLED panels made by Samsung Display in its Q1 production line.HB Solution announced that it had

Samsung Display purchased 42 patents in the US related to oxide thin-film transistors (TFT) from Fujifilm last month, TheElec has learned.The South Korean panel currently uses oxide TFT on its Gen 8 quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels.Samsung Display may use the technology again for Gen 8 OLED panels aimed

Chinese display panel makers Tianma and CSOT are expected to resume spending and order equipment within the year, sources from South Korean equipment makers told TheElec.This is thanks to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s being expected to secure a third term during the National Congress that will last

Japan’s Canon Tokki is the leader in OLED deposition equipment and the industry is watching closely whether they will maintain this leadership in the era of Gen 8 OLED as it did the prior generations.Samsung Display and LG Display, the company’s main customers, are currently developing equipment for