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

It has been confirmed on the 8th that Vice Chairman Young-Soo Kwon visited Japan in the middle of last February to have meetings with a high-level executive of Panasonic. At this meeting, the industry assumes that more advanced discussions on the supply of large OLED panels for TVs had been exchange

AUO, The No. 1 display company in Taiwan, has confirmed that it is building a new OLED pilot line (test production). AUO has been producing OLEDs in the low-grade deposition process production lines. However, it has introduced 'printing OLED' and 'micro-LED display' with the direction of next-genera

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

Samsung Display has recently requested quotes from a display equipment maker DMS, with which it had not traded in the past few years, for LCD device cleaning equipment. It seems that Samsung Electronics has done so as SEMES, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, has begun to liquidate the LCD equipme

It has been confirmed that Samsung Display and BOE in China are the major suppliers of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels for premium smartphone P30 series released by Huawei on the 26th. LG Display, which had been the main supplier of flexible OLED panels for Huawei smartphones, has been re

Yoon Soo-Young, Director of Research Center (Executive Director) of LG Display, said, “Ultimately, display technology should advance toward being rollable. The key technologies required for rollable displays are metal foil replacement and transparent polyimide (PI)” at the ‘2019 Semiconductor Displa

“Currently, the cover window material of foldable display is polyimide (PI). However, we’re also considering thin glass as the core material," said Kim Dong-Hwan, Executive Director of Samsung Display’s Products Research Team, at the ‘2019 Semiconductor Display Technology Roadmap Seminar’ held at Se

Can organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology become the mainstream in the field of lighting? It would be possible only if the price barriers can be overcome. "There is room for OLED technology achievements in display sector development based on large investments to be utilized in lighting," he

At the Sunic System shareholders' meeting, the first greetings of the CEO began with "I apologize." This was due to the company’s sluggish earnings and share price. This year, the OLED display market is expected to boom and the CEO promised to demonstrate the company’s capabilities.Park Jae-Gyu, CEO

Display and semiconductor equipment maker YEST, which suffered a sharp decline following its rapid sales growth, conservatively announced its sales target for this year. It is expected to generate sales of 100 billion won, which sits between their 2017 sales (150.4 billion won) and last year's sales

SEMES, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics and the largest semiconductor display equipment maker in Korea, is restructuring.The key is to sort out the liquid crystal display (LCD) equipment business. LCD equipment accounts for most of the sales of the SEMES display equipment business, but the decisi

Yang Byeong-Deok, Managing Director of Samsung Electronics’s Wireless Division, Display Development, introduced "Infinite-O Display" and "Blue Light Reduction" technologies at the Galaxy S10 Display Technology Briefing held at the Samsung Electronics Press Center in Jung-gu, Seoul, on 14th and said,

A local media source, Commercial Times (工商時報), reported on the 11th that He Zhaoyang, CEO of Taiwanese polarizer maker Cheng Mei Materials Technology (CMMT), said, "We raised the selling prices of polarizers shipped from Kunshan factory in China. And material polarizer maker SAPO in Shenzhen, China,

LG Display held a 'display technology briefing session' on March 27th at Magok LG Science Park. Beginning with defining displays, the company has explained future progress directions and display technology leading to cathode ray tube (CRT), plasma display panel (PDP), liquid crystal display (LCD), o

The market share of Samsung Display's small and medium-sized organic light-emitting diode (OLED), which maintains a "super-gap", is expected to fall under 90% in the first quarter of this year.Market researcher, IHS Markits predicted that Samsung Display's market share in the smartphone OLED panel m

The government is moving to designate organic light emitting diode (OLED) production equipment as a National Core Technology in spite of the opposition of the equipment industry. The government announced that the revision and notification will be made in the first quarter. A controversy surrounding

Last year, Chinese display panel maker, Tianma ranked No. 1 in the Low-Temperature Polycrystalline Silicon (LTPS) Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) market share of smart phones. This is the first time that a Chinese display panel maker has taken the lead in the small- and medium- size display market.Acco

Youlchon Chemical supplied the core material for a foldable display to the Chinese Royole foldable phone 'Flex Pai'.According to the industry on May 29, Youlchon Chemical’s silver nanowire (AgNW) has been installed on the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display of Flex Pie foldable phones made b

"We will continue to focus on organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and, by concentrating on growing commercial and automotive businesses, we will raise the proportion of OLED and growth businesses to more than 50% by 2020 (the latter half of 20% in 2018) by 2020."Sang Bum Han, Vice Chairman of LG D