Samsung Electronics said on Monday that it reached a million unit sales in South Korea for its Galaxy S21 smartphones series.The milestone was reached 57 days after official sales in the country begin. The series also reached a million unit sales a month earlier than it predecessor, Galaxy S20 serie

Ultra-thin glass (UTG) will account for 80% of all over windows used in foldable panels going forward, according to market research firm UBI Research.Polyimide (PI) films will also continue to account for 20% of the total for the next five years, the research firm said.Samsung Display will only supp

LG Display has named executive vice president Shin Sang-moon as its first chief safety and environment officer (CSEO) on Monday.The company early this month announced the formation of the new CSEO post, following a fatal gas leak on January at its plant that killed one employee of a subcontractor.LG

Display equipment maker Philoptics will aim to supply fab equipment for new growth, the company CEO said on Monday at its shareholders’ meeting.Philoptics CEO Han Ki-soo said the company was preparing to manufacture and supplying wafer bonding equipment and was aiming to win an order for them within

Solus Advanced Materials on Friday named former SK Hynix president Suh Kwang-pyuk as a new independent CEO at its shareholders’ meeting and board meeting.He will become the joint CEO to current CEO Chin Dae-jae. CEO Lee Yoon-seok, which oversaw the company along with Chin, will step down from his po

EO Technics CEO Sung Kyu-dong said on Friday that the uptick in the global semiconductor and printed circuit board (PCB) markets will help the company’s growth in 2021.The increase demand for chips will continue to help the company’s growth, the CEO said at its shareholders’ meeting.EO Technics was

Dreamtech said on Friday that it will collaborate with MixComm to develop 5G mmWave system.MixComm will develop 28GHz 5G mmWave RF chip and antenna-in-package (AiP) solution.The US company was co-founded by professor Harish Krishnaswamy of Colombia University and ex-Qualcomm VP Frank Lane, who has o

Nanobrick said on Thursday that it will launch materials with adaptive transmittance and color used in display panels.The company will develop these materials using its own active nano platform, which it uses to make functional materials.Nanobrick has launched a variety of materials using the platfo

Wonik IPS is always open to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and the company will need to secure additional processes to compete with world-class companies, a company executive told TheElec on Thursday.The executive, who was speaking after Wonik IPS’ shareholders’ meeting, said while it wasn’t reviewi

South Korean display equipment maker Hims is aiming to reduce its reliance on OLED equipment this year from sales in new areas.Hims CEO JH Kim said at its shareholders’ meeting on Wednesday that the company has been preparing to enter the semiconductor equipment and software businesses for the past

Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that it will be supplying 5G equipment to Japanese telco NTT DocomoIt is the Korean firm’s first direct supply to the carrierSamsung has previously supplied 5G equipment to KDDI, Japan’s second largest carrier.The Korean company will be supplying radio units to NT

LG Display CEO said on Tuesday that the company will beef up its safety management standard going forward.Company CEO Jeong Ho-young’s comment at its shareholders’ meeting comes after a worker died following a gas leak at one of the firm’s plant in South Korea.Jeong said the company was still invest

YEST said Tuesday that it has won a ruling in China against KDX.The Korean display and chip equipment maker will receive 90% of the payment it was suppose to receive from Chinese optical film maker as compensation, after the contract between the pair was canceled.YEST signed a US$13.65 million contr

Samsung Display said on Tuesday that it has supplied low-power OLED panels to Chinese smartphone makers Oppo and Oneplus.The company said it applied its Adaptive Frequency technology __ the name it gives for low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) thin-film transistor (TFT) technology __ to the

South Korean camera module maker Partron’s aim to reduce its reliance to Samsung Electronics will be tested this year.The company is planning to expand into automotive components due to powered profitability in the smart camera module sector.Last year, Partron became a tier-1 camera module supplier

SKC on Monday said it has signed a MOU to rent lands at Kota Kinabalu Industrial Mark (KKIP) in Malaysia to build a copper foil plant there.The online signing ceremony was attended by Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.SKC and its subsidiary SK Nexilis will rent 400,000 meter-square of land

Samsung Display will convert its OLED line dedicated to its largest customer Apple into one that makes low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) thin-film transistor (TFT) within the first half of 2021, according to market research firm UBI Research.The South Korean display panel manufacturer’s A

Samsung Display’s OLED panel shipment dropped 9% in January from the previous month to 45 million units, according to market research firm Omdia.Low sales of iPhone 12 Mini was the cause, the firm said.Apple launched four models in its iPhone 12 series last year. As a whole, the series recorded stro

Semes’ talks to sell its display equipment business unit to Wonik IPS for 82 billion won has failed.Wonik IPS said on Friday that the pair’s contract for the deal signed on August 31 has been canceled and they were no longer in talks.The company said Semes, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, calle

Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that four models in its 2021 Neo QLED TV series has received certification for Gaming TV Performance from German electrical engineering institute Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker (VDE).QN900, QN800, QN90, and QN85 were given the certificate for low input lag an