BOE is planning to commercially launch a MicroOLED display in the second half of 2021, TheElec has learned.The panel will be applied to products that support augmented reality and virtual reality viewing.BOE had been developing MicroOLED since 2018 through Kunming BOE Display Technology, its joint v

PI Advanced Materials said on Tuesday that it expects record sales in 2021.The firm is aiming to expand sales of polyimide films by 10% to 15% this year, a company spokesperson said.The company posted sales of 261.8 billion won last year, its record up to date. It posted operating income of 60 billi

SK Nexilis said on Tuesday that it may build its fifth copper foil factory at Jeongeup a month sooner than initially planned.This will mean the factory could go live as soon as 2021 and began selling copper foil within the year.Company CEO Kim Young-tae said at its fourth quarter conference call tha

Electronics component maker SoluM said on Monday that it has supplied Galaxy SmartTag to Samsung Electronics.The recently launched Galaxy SmartTag uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology to connect with a smartphone. It is used as a smart tag on objects that allows for smartphone owners to find t

Seoul Semiconductor said on Monday that it is expecting sales between 310 billion won to 330 billion won in the first quarter of 2021.This will be a jump between 27% to 33% from the same time period a previous year.The LED maker said it has strengthened its global sales team and have differentiated

Young Poong Group’s earnings this year will hinge on what components Apple decided to use on its next iPhone.Cupertino will likely decide within this month on what flexible printed circuit board (PCB) it will use for its organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels in its next iPhone that will launch

LG Display will invest US$750 million to expand its organic light emitting diode (OLED) module factory in Vietnam.The city of Haiphong approved the plan, Vietnam News Agency said. LG Display will began the expansion of OLED module assembly factory at the city next month.The new production equipment

Two researchers at Samsung Display received jail terms on Friday for leaking the company’s technology related to organic light emitting diode (OLED).The Suwon District Court sentenced the two researchers, a 47-year-old and a 38-year old, to two years in prison for violating South Korea’s industry te

The South Korean government has approved Samsung Display’s sales of its liquid crystal display (LCD) factory at Suzhou, China to TCL (CSOT), TheElec has learned.Samsung and TCL agreed to the sales last year.The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy held a committee meeting on Thursday to approve th

Stretchable display is a fundamentally different technology to foldable and rollable displays and will be more difficult to realize, a South Korea professor says.Stretchable display will require elastic substrates and circuits, while it will also have to endure pressure from three axes, Soonchunhyan

Seoul Viosys said on Wednesday that it expects sales between 120 billion won to 130 billion won in the first quarter of 2021.This will be a rise of 38% to 50% from the same time period a year ago.The company said it expects sales from MiniLED and MicroLED in the first quarter.Seoul Viosys will also

Prices of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels will remain high up to the second quarter of 2021 due to the recent fire yet AGC’s glass substrate manufacturing plant in South Korea, market research firms say.Prior to the fire, research firms pointed that price increases of LCD will make a downturn in

SoluM said on Wednesday that it has won 550 billion won worth of orders for electronic shelf labels (ESL) in the fourth quarter.The Korean electronics component maker said it expects its ESL business hit its highest sales ever in 2021.SoluM said it has signed three-year contracts for its Newton ESLs

Display equipment maker Meere Company will supply its edge grinder for Tianma’s Gen 6 OLED production line.According to chinabidding.com, the Korean company won an order for edge griners and edge inspection equipment from the Chinese display giant last week.Edge grinder uses a grinding wheel to make

OLED material maker P&H Tech’s share price for its KOSDAQ listing has been set at 18,000 won, the company said on Tuesday.The company held orders from institutional investors from January 28 to 29. It is offering 516,000 shares to them. The 18,000 share price exceeds that of P&H Tech’s asking price

Semiconductor board maker Simmtech has closed one of its factories in South Korea due to employees contracting COVID-19.The company has found seven cases among its employees from January 31 to February 2.One of the patients, who is in their 40s, was a worker at the company’s first Cheongju factory.

Samsung Display said on Tuesday that its latest OLED panel has received the Sunlight Visibility verification from Underwriters Laboratories (UL).The OLED panel was used on the Galaxy S21 Ultra smartphone that launched last month.UL’s test showed that the OLED panel scored 73% in DCI-P3 ambient color

LED maker Wooree E&L is expanding its LED production to meet high demand for LED from IT products such as notebooks due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The company was expanding its LED module production line from the previous 18 to 20, a company spokesperson said.The new lines will start production within

Corning said it was expanding production at its Gen 10.5 (2,940x3,370) liquid crystal display (LCD) glass substrate factories in China.The company said demand from TV and IT products continues to be solid, with demand increases for large-sized TV remaining robust. Demand for 75-inch TV grew over 60%

China’s Everdisplay Optronics listed on Shanghai Stack Exchange Star Market on Monday, but the company will need to overcome its profitability problem.Everdisplay manufacturers small rigid and flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels. Its current mainstay is rigid OLED. The firm was the f