LG Display is planning to halt production of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels for TVs in South Korea this month, TheElec has learned.The P7 factory at the company’s facility in Paju, which is responsible for the panels’ production, will halt production within December.The nearby P8 will continue

LG Display is expected to launch large OLED panels with micro lens array technology which will improve brightness and power consumption.The South Korean display panel maker first unveiled a 77-inch 8K OLED panel with the technology and deuterium applied at SID 2022 in May this year.Micro lens array

Spending on display production equipment will drop in 2023 and 2024 compared to this year, according to analyst firm Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC).Spending this year will be US$12 billion but this will drop by 63% to US$4.4 billion next year.This will increase again in 2024 to US$8.3 billi

SFC, the joint venture between Samsung Display and Japanese chemical firm Hodogaya, has succeeded in nullifying a patent related to deuterium used in OLED in South Korea.The patent in question is co-owned by LG Display and Material Science, and was canceled in a ruling by the Intellectual Property T

Samsung Display is supply over 70% of the OLED panels that Apple use for its iPhone 14 series, TheElec has learned.This is thanks to the company’s already dominant position helped by setbacks of rivals LG Display and BOE, sources said.Apple is expected to use over 120 million units of OLED panels fo

The OLED panel that Samsung will use for its Galaxy M54 smartphone launching next year will be developed by Chinese display panel makers BOE and CSOT, TheElec has learned.The Galaxy M series is mostly sold online as a budget model in Southeast Asia.Samsung sells millions of units of the phone but th

LG Display’s plan to invest in OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) production is facing delays.The company was originally expected to place orders for the equipment needed for production sometime in the third quarter.But LG Display is yet to do so and a decision is unlikely until December, sources said.OLEDoS

Samsung Display was considering expanding its quantum dot (QD)-OLED production capacity in order to win orders from Apple for their monitors, according to analyst firm UBI Research.The South Korean display panel maker was considering investing in QD-OLED production at its newly planned factory, like

HB Solution will be supplying quantum dot (QD) inkjet equipment to Samsung Display by the end of this month, TheElec has learned.The equipment will be used to form the QD color conversion layer used in QD-OLED panels made by Samsung Display in its Q1 production line.HB Solution announced that it had

Samsung Display purchased 42 patents in the US related to oxide thin-film transistors (TFT) from Fujifilm last month, TheElec has learned.The South Korean panel currently uses oxide TFT on its Gen 8 quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels.Samsung Display may use the technology again for Gen 8 OLED panels aimed

Chinese display panel makers Tianma and CSOT are expected to resume spending and order equipment within the year, sources from South Korean equipment makers told TheElec.This is thanks to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s being expected to secure a third term during the National Congress that will last

Japan’s Canon Tokki is the leader in OLED deposition equipment and the industry is watching closely whether they will maintain this leadership in the era of Gen 8 OLED as it did the prior generations.Samsung Display and LG Display, the company’s main customers, are currently developing equipment for

A Samsung Display executive said on Friday that MicroLED displays will likely be used over OLED display panels in augmented reality (AR) devices.Samsung Display group leader Kim Min-woo said at MicroLED Display Workshop industry event in Seoul that this was because high luminance, or brightness, was

The current oversupply of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels is expected to continue through 2023, analyst firm TrendForce said in its latest forecast.LCD panel prices had increased from June 2020 through the first half of 2021, the firm said, spurned by high demand for consumer electronics from Co

Samsung Display was aiming to develop red, green and blue (RGB) OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) technology.Like its competitors LG Display and Sony, the company will develop OLEDoS that uses white pixels and color filters first.But it ultimately aims to develop OLEDoS without the need of white pixels, sour

Samsung Display is planning to use a transparent polyimide substrate for its foldable OLED panels by 2024, TheElec has learned.Using completely transparent polyimide instead of the yellowish ones used now will increase the light penetration through the panel and improve the quality of pictures in un

Samsung has begun production of 89-inch MicroLED TVs during the third quarter, TheElec has learned.It is the tech giant’s first MicroLED TV that uses low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) thin-film transistor (TFT) glass substrates instead of the printed circuit boards used in prior models.

Apple has increased the specification it wants from its OLED on Silicon, or OLEDoS, panels from Samsung Display and LG Display, TheElec has learned.The company had first requested pixels per inch of 2800 but has now increased to 3500ppi, sources said.Cupertino likely wants to increase the immersion

LG Display is set an OLED panel shipment target for 2023 that is higher than its expected shipment this year, TheElec has learned.The company is expected to ship less of the panels than it aimed for this year due to demand for TVs falling, in general, this year from inflation.LG Display is planning

There will be no spending on equipment related to the production of large OLED panels used in TVs and monitors next year, analyst firm Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) said in its forecast.Such panels are made by South Korean companies LG Display and Samsung Display.DSCC said spending on equi