SoluM is aiming to surpass BOE in electronic shelf labels (ESL) within the next three years to become the world’s largest vendor, CEO Jun Sung Ho said on Wednesday.In 2019, BOE acquired France’s SES Imagotag, which is the world’s largest ESL maker. Ranked second is Sweden’s Pricer. SoluM is third.So

LG Display said on Wednesday that its factory at Paju suffered a gas leak that injured six people.Tetramethylammonium hydroxide was leaked when workers were trying to reconnect a pipe at LG’s P8 factory, the company said.Two were heavily injured __ they suffered heart attacks but were revived __ whi

Skyworth on Tuesday unveiled 16 new models of OLED and liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs at CES 2021.Its XC9300 TV is offered in 55 and 65-inch sizes and have 120Hz screen refresh rate, Dolby Atmos and DTS surround sound.Some TV models will also support Google Apps.The Chinese TV panel maker said it

Chinese TV maker TCL showed off its new MiniLED TV called OD Zero at CES 2021.The TV has thousands of local dimming zone and has 50% thinner backlight, TCL claimed.It also improves contrast ratio compared to predecessors and minimizes optical crosstalk, the company said.TCL also announced a partners

Mcnex, in collaboration with Corephotonics, announced that they have developed a front prism dual-sensing ADAS camera at CES 2021.The camera will improve autonomous driving in cars. It will receive videos of intersections and curved roads to the control unit, Mcnex said.One camera will monitor the f

LG Display unveiled a 77-inch OLED panel at CES 2021 made with new organic light emitting material.The company said is used a new high efficiency organic material for the panel that increases luminance by 20%.This will allow the panel to show brighter pictures and will be used in high-end OLED produ

LG Display CTO Yoon Soo-young said on Monday that MiniLED technology was an extension of existing liquid crystal display (LCD) technology that has clear limitations.MiniLED was an LCD with improved backlighting that has the same limitation a conventional LCD, Yoon said.OLED will continue to be ahead

TCL’s plan to shift the liquid crystal display (LCD) factory it is buying from Samsung Display from TV panels to IT panels is likely to be delayed, TheElec has learned.This is due to the shortage of LCD TV panels, and customers are requesting TCL extend LCD TV panel production at Suzhou, people fami

Solus Advanced Materials said on Friday that its elecfoil produced in its factory in Hungary has won quality approval from LG Energy Solution.Mass production and supply will begin soon, Solus said.In July 2019, the pair signed a elecfoil supply deal worth US$380 million. LG Energy sill receive elecf

LG Display will extend its production of liquid crystal display (LCD) TV panels in South Korea by a year, TheElec has learned.The extensions comes from LG Electronics’ request as it was finding difficulty in securing sufficient volume of LCD panels.LG Display has initially intended to halt LCD TV pa

LG Display said on Thursday that it will show off various display solutions for remote services at the upcoming CES 2021 that starts on January 11.The South Korean display panel maker said the theme of its exhibition will be “Display, now the real world comes to you”.LG Display will showoff its 88-i

System semiconductor design company Coasia and design service firm Hanatec on Wednesday signed a technology and personnel sharing agreement to win global orders together.Both companies are official design solution partners of Samsung Electronics’ Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFE) alliance.Th

Jahwa Electronics has sold close to 90% of the production equipment and raw materials at its camera module factory in Vinh Phuc, Vietnam, TheElec has learned.The company had exited the camera module business in the first half of 2020. It entered Samsung Electronics’ smartphone camera module supply c

Samsung Display will be the exclusive supplier used by Apple for organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels used in the two highest tier models of its next iPhone, TheElec has learned.Both models of iPhone 13 will use low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) thin-film transistors (TFT) OLED pane

LG Display said on Tuesday that its OLED panel have received certificate from Eyesafe.Eyesafe measures blue light emissions in devices. The certificate is given when out of the total blue light emitted, below 50% is not harmful and out of total visible light, harmful blue light only accounts for bel

Major South Korean camera lens firms saw their earnings decline in the third quarter.In 2020, Sekonix posted 272 billion won in sales as of the third quarter and operating loss of 14.8 billion won. In sales, it is a decline of 26% from a year ago. The company turned to the red in the period.Other co

Amotech’s multi layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) has received product approval from Samsung Electronics’ network business, TheElec has learned.The approval paves the way for Samsung to approve mass production for Amotech if the pair decide to collaborate later.Amotech may began supplying MLCC to Samsu

LG Display on Sunday said it will showoff a bendable 48-inch Cinematic Sound OLED panel at CES 2021.The panel is aimed at gaming and can be bent by up to 1000R (equivalent how a circle with 1000mm radius is bent).A TV with the panel will be able to switch from flat when used to view media content an

Samsung Display on Sunday said it plans to launch over 10 OLED panels aimed at notebooks this year.The company last year launched 5 OLED panels for notebooks.Samsung Display is expecting to ship five times the OLED panels for notebook in 2021 compared to a year ago due to continued demand for PCs fr

LG Display on Thursday said it will display transparent OLED panels at the upcoming online CES 2021.The company said the panels have a transparency rate of 40%. LG Display said this was way higher than liquid crystal display’s (LCD) 10% and the panels are glass clear.LG Display said it will show off