Samsung is reviewing a plan to launch its new foldable phones two to three weeks earlier than initially planned, TheElec has learned.The tech giant is currently planning to launch Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 smartphones in the second week of August through an Unpacked event.But the company i

Those in the South Korean display equipment industry told TheElec that they are skeptical of Chinese display panel maker HKC’s plan to invest in OLED display panels.Senior executives of HKC has been paying visits to South Korea for months recently and offering to order equipment to domestic equipmen

LG Innotek has acquired 77 patents in the US from the now defunct autonomous driving startup Argo AI, TheElec has learned.Argo AI, which closed its business in October last year, was an autonomous driving startup that focused on lidar sensor technologies.Lidar shoots beams of light and measures the

LG Display has begun developing a new etching technology for OLED panels that will be supplied to Apple, TheElec has learned.The technology is being prepared by the company to launch a so-called hybrid OLED panel, which uses a glass substrate like a rigid OLED panel but uses thin-film encapsulation

Samsung Electronics and LG Display have resumed their negotiations for a possible white OLED (W-OLED) supply deal, TheElec has learned.The pair are discussing LG Display potentially supplying somewhere between 200,000 to 300,000 units of W-OLED panels as the initial stock, sources said.If LG Display

Japan’s Idemitsu Kosan said on Tuesday that its new research center in Osan, South Korea won’t be affected by diplomatic or security issues.Idemitsu is a supplier of blue OLED material and electron transport layer to Samsung Display and LG Display for OLED panels.The Japanese company formed the rese

Chinese display panel makers monopolizing the liquid crystal display (LCD) market will in the long run threaten the TV businesses of Samsung and LG, according to UBI Research CEO Choong Hoon Yi.Yi told TheElec in an interview on Tuesday that while many see the dominance of Chinese companies in the L

Samsung Display is almost certainly expected to use its M12 material set for OLED panels that it will supply to Apple for iPhone 15 series this year, sources told TheElec.The South Korean display panel maker used the material set for the first time last year for the two top-tier models of the iPhone

Samsung Display will start manufacturing OLED panels for the iPhone 15 Series in May, a month earlier than initially planned, TheElec has learned.This is because BOE, which was given the order by Apple to manufacture some OLED panels for the standard model of iPhone 15, is facing problems in product

LG Display is expected to supply a 30-inch range OLED panel to electric car maker Lucid, TheElec has learned.The supply timeline has been delayed due to Lucid’s financial difficulty but LG Display is expected to start producing the panels in the fourth quarter, sources said.The OLED panel Lucid plan

Samsung Electro-Mechanics has so far filed 14 patents that are seemingly related to solid-state batteries.According to Kpris, an open portal of all patents filed in South Korea run by the Korea Patent Office, the component maker had so far filed a total of 14 patents related to solid-state batteries

Samsung Display was considering collaborating with APS holdings for the development of a 3500ppi fine metal mask (FMM), TheElec has learned.The masks are used to manufacture OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) that can be used in virtual and augmented reality devices.APS Holdings had last year unveiled an OLED

Samsung Electro-Mechanics was developing components for small solid-state batteries.Samsung Electro-Mechanics CEO Chang Duck-hyun told reporters after the company’s shareholders meeting on Tuesday that the company had the technology to make solid oxide at high temperatures thanks to its experience m

Executive and employees of display and battery production equipment maker Toptec have been found guilty of leaking the technologies of customer Samsung Display to Chinese competitors.The Suwon High Court, the appeals court, overturned a ruling of not guilty from the district court on Tuesday and fou

Samsung is starting its reliability test for the waterdrop hinge it will adopt on its next foldable smartphone, likely to be called Galaxy Z Fold 5, TheElec has learned.The final reliability test will last around a month and the company is expected to finalize the concept afterward, sources said.Thi

BOE was facing problems in developing OLED panels aimed at Apple’s iPhone 15, TheElec has learned.The hole display was facing a light leakage problem __ where the light that isn’t properly covered by the screen comes from the corners or edges. And in this case, the light was leaking out of the hole

Samsung Display will be using Chemtronics as its vendor to handle the back-end etching of OLED panels it plans to supply to Apple for iPads, TheElec has learned.Chemtronics will be the sole vendor for the process, sources said.Samsung Display and LG Display are gearing up to start production of OLED

LG Innotek is planning to start production of flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) in October this year.This will be its first phase; the second phase will start in 2026, the company said in a video posted on YouTube earlier this month that now has been pulled.The first phase of production will begin

OLED material company Lordin has registered a patent related to blue OLED that has four times the luminance efficiency than previously.Lordin CEO Oh Hyoung-yun told TheElec on Wednesday that the technology on the patent was differentiated from those in the US and Japan.The company was aiming to comm

The CEO of Chinese display giant BOE is visiting Japan for a meeting with those at display production equipment maker Canon Tokki, TheElec has learned.The visit by BOE CEO Gao Wenbao is expected to be made around the middle of the month, sources said.His visit is likely being made to secure earlier