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 on Monday said it has launched the 2021 The Wall display, which uses Micro LED technology.The latest model, model name IWA, has a micro AI processor with 16 neural networks models used to upscale resolution.The new display also uses LED devices that are 40% smaller than their predecessor.Thi

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

Camera lens firm Haesung Optics and camera module inspection equipment maker isMedia will collaborate in developing expanded reality (XR) devices and contents, the pair said on Wednesday.They will also collaborate to make inspection equipment more sophisticated.A Haesung spokesperson said it will us

Isu Petasys CEO Seo Young-joon said on Thursday that the company’s subsidiary in Hunan province in China has turned a profit in the second quarter.It is the unit’s first profit since 2013, when Isu Petasys acquired the factory from Taiwan’s TTL.Seo said the network printed circuit board (PCB) compan

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

A total of 122 models of OLED smartphones were launched in the first half of 2021, according to market research firm UBI Research.Out of the total, 119 models, or 97.5%, were in the 6-inch range in terms of size, the firm said.This is a 20 point increase from 2018, when 78% of OLED smartphones had 6

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

LG InnoTek and Corning are collaborating in the research of liquid lens, their patent filings showed.The pair had decided to share 50/50 stakes in nine US patents related to liquid lens on April 5, documents seen by TheElec showed.Corning decided to share stakes in six of its patents with LG InnoTek

LG InnoTek has completed selling its 114 patents in South Korea related to LED technologies to Chinese company Suzhou LEKIN Semiconductor, TheElec has learned.The transaction was completed on July 2, according South Korea patent portal Kipris run by the Korean Intellectual Property Office.LG InnoTek

A Samsung Electro-Mechanics executive said on Wednesday that the company was researching metalens.Metalens is a flat lens that have nano particles aligned on its surface.Though the lens is flat, the particles bend the light to collect them.The technology allows lens to be made thinner than they are

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

The global OLED mask market is expected to grow 10% from 2020 this year to be worth US$354 million, according to market research firm Omdia.But it will grow 34% year-on-year in 2022 to be worth US$476 million, the firm said.Fine metal masks account for 98% of OLED masks. They are used to deposit red

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

South Korea board maker BH will be supplying over half of the rigid flexible printed circuit boards (RFPCB) used in Apple’s new iPhones launching later this year, TheElec has learned.BH will be supplying mid-50% of the board used, while Samsung Electro-Mechanics will supply 30%. Youngpoong Electroni

Seoul Semiconductor has won a patent lawsuit it filed against a US distributor.On Thursday, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey ruled in favor of the Korean LED maker, saying Onyx Enterprise’s LED products sold on its CARiD.com online platform violated patents related to

LG Chem is aiming to expand its supply of blue OLED emission layer to LG Display this year, TheElec has learned.LG Chem is hoping to supply the blue host for the WBE material set used by LG Display for their large-sized OLED panels.An OLED material set is comprised of an emission layer __ which admi

LG Electronics said on Wednesday that it will start sales of its premium LCD TV brand, LG QNED Mini LED, in July.Sales of the TV model will begin in the US, then expand to Japan, Europe and South Korea, the company said.The brand includes an 8K 120Hz model, an 8K 60Hz model and a 4K 120Hz model. The

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