Corning has completed the construction of a glass factory at Wuhan, adjacent to BOE’s liquid crystal display (LCD) factory.This will likely boost the Chinese display panel maker’s production of large LCD TV panels larger than 65-inches.Corning’s Gen 10.5 (3370x2940mm) LCD glass factory was built nex

OLED emission material companies recorded high first quarter earnings that beat market expectations.Apple’s iPhone 12 sales, Samsung’s earlier than usual launch of Galaxy S21 smartphones, expanded application of OLED panels in notebooks and mid-tier phones, and Chinese panel makers expanding their O

Display equipment maker Invenia has developed an inductively coupled plasma (ICP) dry etcher for use in Gen 10.5 (2940x3370) substrates.The company said the etcher can be used in Gen 10.5 OLED and liquid crystal display (LCD) production lines.The firm has previously offered etchers for Gen 8.5 (2200

The global OLED emitting material market will grow 17% in 2021 compared to last year to be worth US$1.52 billion, according to market research firm UBI Research.South Korean panel companies will buy 74.3% of the total material, while their Chinese counterparts will account for 25.7%, the research fi

Samsung Electro-Mechanics will be supplying its rigid flexible printed circuit boards (RFPCB) to Apple for the upcoming iPhone 13, TheElec has learned.RFPCB is used to connect the OLED panel with the main baord.Samsung Electro-Mechanics had considered exiting the RFPCB business last year, with iPhon

Around 169 million units of iPhone OLED panels will be shipped this year, according to market research firm Omdia.This is 47.6% higher than the 114.5 million units shipped in 2020. The 169 million units includes legacy OLED iPhone models as well as those for new models launching later this year. App

Major display panel companies in South Korea and China are expected to see improved earnings in the first quarter.South Korean analysts expect Samsung Display and LG Display to see significant improvement in their performances for the quarter compared to a year prior.LG Display is expected record sa

South Korean cover glass company JNTC will be supplying cover glass for the display on a new electric vehicle by Mercedes-Benz that will launch in the second half of the year, TheElec has learned.The firm will be the exclusive supplier of the cover glasses used for the user experience hyperscreen (M

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

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

Display equipment manufacturer Avaco on Thursday said it was conducting a reliability review on its semiconductor packaging sputter with a semiconductor company.The company is hoping sales from the supply of the sputters will occur this yearAvaco is pushing metal layer deposition sputter, used for w

Samsung Display said on Tuesday that it has supplied its OLED panel to Asus for the latter’s Republic of Gamers (ROG) Phone 5.The supply of the 6.78-inch OLED panel is the Korean firm’s first for the ROG series.Samsung Display said the display panel supports 120Hz or higher refresh rate. It was deem

Worldwide revenue from organic light emitting diode (OLED) increased only increased 0.7% in 2020, according to market research firm UBI Research.This was due to price drops of smartphone OLED panels, which cause revenue increase to be less than shipment increase, the firm said.Global OLED revenue hi

Interests for virtual reality, augmented reality and extended reality __ which combines the two, know as XR __ remain strong.However, what direction XR will develop technologically remain uncertain. And despite some industrial applications, a mass market XR consumer devices seem far away from realit

Samsung Display was currently developing in-folding foldable OLED panels to supply to Oppo, Xiaomi and Google, TheElec has learned.Smartphones using these panels will launch within the year.The panel for Oppo folds from top to bottom __ it is an in-folding clamshell type. It is sized 7.7-inch unfold

3D cover glass manufacturer JNTC will begin production of cover glass for wearable in the first half of 2021, TheElec has learned.It will be the company’s first mass production of cover glass for wearable devices.JNTC’s third factory in Vietnam for the glasses is expected to be completed in April, w

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

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

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