Samsung Display unveiled its quantum dot (QD) organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels for the first time at CES 2022.The company showcased three versions of QD-OLED at a private booth __ 55-inch and 65-inch models for TVs and a 34-inch model for monitors, which has a response time of 0.1ms, accor

LG Electronics’ TV boss said on Tuesday that the company would “welcome” Samsung joining the OLED TV market.Park Hyoung-sei, head of home entertainment at LG Electronics, said if Samsung Electronics joins the OLED TV market, it will impact the expansion of the ecosystem "positively."Park also stress

Samsung and LG on Monday unveiled new TVs at CES 2022, which will run from January 5 to 7 at Las Vegas.Samsung said its new MicroLED TVs will come in 110-inch, 101-inch and 89-inch sizes.MicroLED TVs are comprised of micrometer-sized LEDs, usually under 100 micrometers individually, that act as pixe

Samsung Electronics and LG Display’s negotiations over the price of TV OLED panels that the latter will supply are hitting a snag due to the parties failing to agree on an appropriate unit price, TheElec has learned.According to sources, LG Display has offered to supply the panels at a price lower t

LG Display is planning to apply its new technology on its OLED panels for TV to increase their luminance by 30% during the second quarter next year, when mass production will begin, the company said at a press conference on Wednesday.The technology, called OLED.EX, uses deuterium, one of two stable

Samsung is planning to manufacture 200 units of 110-inch MicroLED TV aimed at homes in January, TheElec has learned.This amount is unusually high for a single month as only hundreds of MicroLED TVs had been sold a year so far, with the company usually manufacturing a dozen of them per month.Samsung

The market for OLED materials used in mobile and TV products is expected to be worth US$1.74 billion this year, according to analyst firm UBI Research.This market will grow 9% per year on average up to 2025 when it will be worth US$2.29 billion, the firm said.OLED materials used in tablets and noteb

Samsung’s premium TV lineup for 2022 will consist of 8K MiniLED, 4K OLED and 4K MiniLED technologies, TheElec has learned.The 8K (7680x4320) MiniLED TV, which will carry the Neo QLED TV brand, will be the highest tier out of three technologies, sources said.Samsung’s MicroLED TVs are still the highe

Samsung said on Thursday that it has promoted 198 executives in its year-end reshuffle this year.The company said it has chosen those in their 30s and 40s as vice presidents and executive vice presidents.Promotions were made across all its business units, from TV, smartphones to chips.Samsung said i

Samsung Electronics on Tuesday announced that it would be combining its mobile and consumer electronic divisions.The merged division will be called Set Division and led by Han Jong-hee, who previously headed Samsung’s Visual Display business unit, which manufacturers TVs, being promoted to vice chai

Samsung Electronics had recently sent requests to Samsung Display and AUO to develop a 12.7-inch thin-film transistor (TFT) to apply on its MicroLED TVs, TheElec has learned.Specifically, the South Korean tech giant has requested that the display panel makers develop low-temperature polycrystalline

Companies from both India and China have shown interest in buying Samsung Display’s liquid crystal display (LCD) equipment at its now-defunct L8-1 LCD production line, TheElec has learned.L8-1 line was previously used by the South Korean display panel maker to manufacture panels for TV and IT produc

The high demand for multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) is expected to continue at least until early next year.Murata and Taiyo Yuden’s remaining orders for MLCC during the July to September period doubled from a year ago.Taiyo also increased its MLCC sales forecast for the year thanks to high dem

Samsung Electronics has removed a 70-inch range MicroLED TV from its lineup planned for next year, TheElec has learned.The company will launch MicroLED TV aimed at the home market in three sizes __ 89-inch, 101-inch and 114-inch.Samsung will be applying low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS)

The US and China's trade row is continuing. Five years have passed since the inauguration of the Trump Administration that started the row but the two superpowers' economic competition isn't relenting even in the Biden era.The US-China trade row will undoubtedly affect South Korea's semiconductor bu

LG Electronics said on Thursday that it has recorded 18.78 trillion won in revenue and 540.7 billion won in operating profit during the third quarter.Sales is its highest for a quarter ever and an increase of 22% from the same time period in 2020.Operating profit dropped 49.6% year-on-year from its

Around 6.5 million units of OLED TV are expected to be shipped this year, according to analyst firm Omdia.As of the third quarter, 4.24 million units were shipped this year, which already beats last year’s shipment of 36.5 million units.Omdia had consistently increased its OLED TV shipment forecast

MiniLED TV panels will become even more affordable than their OLED counterparts in the years to come, according to analyst firm Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC).For a 65-inch UHD TV panel, MiniLED is 2% cheaper compared to OLED as of this year.But the former will be 15% cheaper is 2025, DSCC

Samsung Electronics was developing the technology to keep the distance between pixels to early-0.5mm for MicroLED TVs that are under 100-inch in size.This has allowed the company to reduce the distance between pixels by over 10% __ the distance between pixels for its 110-inch MicroLED TV was 0.63mm.

LG Electronics said on Tuesday in its earnings guidance that it is expecting sales of 18.78 trillion won and operating income of 540.7 billion won for the third quarter this year.Sales increased by 22% from a year ago and is its highest quarterly figure to date.However, operating profit dropped 49.6