The Honor smartphone brand will own only 2% market share in terms of shipment in 2021, according to market research firm TrendForce.Huawei’s market share is expected to drop from 14% this year to 4% in 2021, the research firm also said.The Chinese tech giant is having difficult procuring key compone

Display kit maker Youngwoo DSP has clinched a 10.9 billion won order from Chinese display giant BOE for OLED inspection kits.The contract will expire on February 26 __ the deal is worth 10.8% of Youngwoo’s sales for last year.This is the South Korean company’s second contract with BOE this year. Las

LG Chem and Innox Advanced Materials have ended their patent lawsuit over organic light emitting diode (OLED) encapsulation materials.LG Chem withdrew its suit last week, people familiar with the matter said. The company filed the lawsuit in March last year.LG Chem have claimed Innox violated its pa

LG Group said on Thursday that it will split off four of its companies and form a new holding company that will manage them.Out of the 13 subsidiary of LG Corp, the group’s holding company, LG International, LG Hausys, Silicon Works and LG MMA will split off and go under the new holding company. Pan

Samsung Display will begin trail runs of its production line for Quantum Dot (QD) displays next month, TheElec has learned.The line, dubbed Q1, at its factory in Asan, was designed to produce QD-OLED(organic light emitting diode) panels. QD-OLED will be the first iteration of Samsung Display’s so-ca

TLB will begin producing printed circuit boards for DDR5 DRAM memory next year, the company CEO said on Thursday.TLB CEO Baek Seong Hyeon said the company will also begin production of PCBs for enterprise solid-state drives (SSD).It will also enter the PCB market for semiconductor production equipme

Near half of the defects in printed circuit boards (PCB) came from the surface mount technology (SMT) process, a researcher at Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI).KETI researcher Lee Jin-ho said the institute analyzed around 700 cases filed by 235 companies between 2014 to this year for th

Display panel sales in the third quarter of 2020 hit its highest in three years thanks to price rise of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels.Sales hit US$30.5 billion in the third quarter, a rise of 11% from a year ago and 21% higher than the previous quarter, according to Display Supply Chain Consul

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Tuesday that one of its executives responsible for development of boards will win the top price at KPCAshow2020 (Int'l Electronic Circuits and Packaging Show.Kim Eung-soo, vice president at Samsung Electro-Mechanics, won the Minister Prize given by the Ministry of T

SK Materials will form a joint venture with JNC of Japan to enter the OLED materials market.The company said on Tuesday that it was acquiring 48,800 shares for 2.44 billion won of its subsidiary SK JNC, the join venture with JNC.SK Materials will first wholly own the joint venture, than offer its sh

Samsung Electronics has reduced the number of home appliances launching next year that it will apply ultraviolet (UV) LED on from its initial target, TheElec has learned.In September, the company had planned to install UV LED on up to 20 to 30% of new home appliances launching in 2021. The move was

Semicon Light has bee named in a national project to develop high output, large surface ultraviolet LED.It is one project among the Ministry of Science and ICT’s 2020 Innovative Challenge Projects. The project include control system for intelligent and autonomous disinfection robots, intelligent and

LG Electronics said it was promoting its OLED TV with Lady Gaga in New York.A LED billboard in Times Square has been showing Lady Gaga’s new music video for her song 911. At the end of the video, LG OLED and LG are shown.Earlier, LG unveiled a video of the pop star and music video director Tarem Sin

Samsung Display has been ordered by a court in Seoul on Friday to compensate its former employee for their invetion.The employee, who have requested compensation of 150 billion won, had said they will appeal. The dispute between the pair is expected to continue to the appeals court.Samsung Display w

Chinese display giant BOE has yet again failed to clinch a supply order from Apple for OLED panels, TheElec has learned.The display maker will now have to try again in the first half of 2021 __ which means next year’s iPhone series will likely use panels made by Samsung Display and LG Display again.

Component suppliers for Samsung Electronics are looking to reduce their reliance of smartphones.The smartphone market has matured while competition between the suppliers are intensifying, forcing them to look for new revenue stream elsewhere.Mcnex is looking to camera modules for automobiles. It cur

Powerlogics has received Hyundai Motor Group’s standard quality (SQ) certification through car component maker SL Mirrortech.It will allow Powerlogics to supply car components for the automobile maker.Powerlogics is better known as a camera module supplier for smartphones to Samsung Electronics.The

South Korean semiconductor and display equipment maker saw their earnings recover in the third quarter.Semiconductor kit maker were helped by investments from Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. Display equipment companies benefited from Chinese panel makers such as BOE and HKC increasing investments

LG Electronics has increased the TV production rate at its factory in Mexico by 30% from the same time period a year ago to better meet demand from year’s end sales event in North America, the company said on Monday.Its factory in Reynosa, in the state of Tamaulipas, was running at full capacity, th

Growth in the worldwide printed circuit board (PCB) market will be led by semiconductor package boards, data from electronics industry consulting firm Prismark showed.Worldwide PCB market will grow 0.3% this year to be worth US$61.5 billion.Last year, the market contracted 1.7% compared to 2018.This