Synopex posted an operating loss of 1.8 billion won and sales of 76.9 billion won in the third quarter, the company said.Sales jumped 41% from a year ago and is its highest quarterly sales in six years, the firm said.In 2015, Synopex turned its business to focus on flexible printed circuit board-bas

LG Display’s OLED TV panel has received approval from Swiss-based SGS.The panel received the certifications for reducing indoor pollution, reducing hazardous substance and for recycling values, the Korean tech firm said.LG said its OLED TV panel emitted 50% less total volatile organic compounds comp

China’s display industry will have level market share with South Korea this year, according to Omdia.China’s panel sales will reach US$42.5 billion this year with a market share of 36.3%%, the research firm said.South Korea, meanwhile, is expected to post sales of US$43.6 billion this year for a mar

Samsung Display has improved its quantum dot nanorod LED (QNED) technology enough to start investing in production equipment in 2021, according to UBI Research.The market research firm said it analyzed 94 patents filed by the South Korean display maker this year.It found drastic improvements in tech

LG Electronics will run an experience zone for its rollable OLED TV at The Conran Shop at Lotte Department Store in Gangnam.The premium UK lifestyle shop house around 300 living brands. LG OLED R will be displayed at the VIP zone of The Conran Shop.LG OLED R has a rollable OLED screen that rolls dow

Jahwa Electronics’ negotiations to sell its Vietnam camera module factory with Sunny Optical has fallen through, TheElec has learned.The talks between the pair fell through around the end of September, people familiar with the matter said.Sunny Optical has purchased another camera module factory in

SK Nexilis’ first overseas copper foil factory will be located in Southeast Asia, a company executive said.The company is considering customer demand, market’s growth potential and utility bills in selecting the country to build the factory, company executive Lee Jae-hong said.Europe and US were als

Display equipment maker Youngwoo DSP said on Tuesday that it posted operating income of 4.8 billion won and sales of 36.1 billion won.It is a jump of 234% and 97%, respectively, from the same time period a year ago.Accumulated earnings up to the third quarter of 2020 this year was 7.6 billion won in

Printed circuit board (PCB) maker TLB is aiming to be listed on KOSDAQ.The company split-off from Daeduck Electronics back in 2011. It was originally the thin lamination board business of Daeduck.It has turned in its security report to financial authorities on Monday. Its IPO is expected next month.

Kolon Industries said on Friday that it posted operating income of 28.7 billion won and sales of 957.5 billion won.It is steep drop of 44.4% in operating income and a 10.3% decline in sales compared to a year ago.Kolon said it expects demand from the automobile industry to recover. It also said it w

Japan’s Murata Manufacturing expects sales from multi layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) to decline in the second half of the 2020 fiscal year.The world’s largest MLCC maker said sales will decline 3% compared to the first half of the 2020 fiscal year, or between April to September, in the period from

LG Display will expand the production rate of its organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel factory lines dedicated to Apple, TheElec has learned.The company will expand its E6-1 and E6-2 factory lines at Paju, South Korea. LG Display is planning to put in low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LPTO

Seoul Viosys will supply its ultraviolet (UV) LED technology to US pharmaceutical firm Cerus, the South Korean company said.The company’s Violeds will be used in Cerus’ Intercept Blood System.Cerus is the only company to receive both Europe’s CE and US’s FDA approval for blood transfusion, Seoul Vio

Samsung Electro-Mechanics has narrowed its candidates to buy its wireless communication module business, which includes W-Fi modules, to two companies, TheElec has learned.There were nine companies that showed interest in buying the businesses initially, but this was first narrowed down to four and

Samsung Display said on Thursday that it was sending a hundred employees to India to wrap up construction of its organic light emitting diode (OLED) module factory there.The staff, numbering a hundred people of its own and suppliers’, will visit its OLED factory under construction at Noida city of t

Daeduck Electronics has expanded its production of flip chip–ball grid array (FC-BGA) for semiconductors as of last month, the company said on Wednesday.FC-BGA is a semiconductor package board without a wire. It sens electric signal between the chip and the main board. It is used in PC CPUs.FC-BGA,

Camera module suppliers to Samsung Mobile saw their operating income plummet in the third quarter of 2020.This starkly contrasts with Samsung Mobile’s 50% surge in operating income for the quarter __ which likely shows that the Korean tech giant benefited from hefty cuts in module unit prices.Mcnex

SK Nexilis’ fifth factory at Jeongeup will began production in January, 2022, the company CEO said.Company CEO Kim Young-tae said at the company’s third quarter conference call that the factory will wrap up process change notification with its customer by the end of 2021, and begun selling copper fo

Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and other major TV vendors are planning to launch miniLED TVs in 2021.MiniLED TVs will likely makeup the premium segment of liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs, which is still the dominant technology in the global TV market.MiniLED is being touted as the next-generat

Half of new flexible OLED smartphones launching in 2021 will be produced by Apple, according to data from research firm Stone Partners.According to the research firm, 315 million smartphones launching next year will use a flexible OLED panel.This is 52% higher than this year’s expected shipment of 2