Samsung Display has received licence the US Department of Commerce to export some OLED panels to Huawei, TheElec has learned.The company is the first to receive the licence for a South Korean firm.US sanctions against Huawei went into effect on September 15.LG Display, Samsung Electronics and SK Hyn

Samsung Display change its display panel technology for its foldable panel that will be supplied for Samsung Electronics’ foldable smartphone launching next year to accommodate the S Pen stylus, a South Korean research firm said.Samsung Display will consider applying active electrostatic solution (A

Chinese display panel makers are expected to shift some of their liquid crystal display (LCD) TV lines for those of monitors, according to market research firm TrendForce.This was due to their 10.5-generation TV LCD lines increasing in operations __ the previous 8.5 and 8.6-generation TV LCD lines w

Apple’s iPhone 12 series is the first in the series to use OLED screens for all models.Samsung Display and LG Display, which supplied OLED panels last year, saw shipment grow for 2020 thanks to Apple’s OLED push.Cupertino is offering four models for the iPhone 12 __ 5.4-inch iPhone Mini, 6.1-inch iP

Semiconductor and display particle contamination monitoring equipment maker Withtech was in talks with YMTC of China and TSMC of Taiwan for a potential supply deal, the company said on Tuesday.Overseas clients account for 47% of the company’s sales __ it plans to expand this further buy winning more

Display heat treatment equipment maker Viatron Technologies is looking to acquire companies in the semiconductor and battery equipment industry for new growth, the company said on Thursday.KOSDAQ-listed companies as well as startups were all potential candidates, a company spokesperson said.One of t

Chinese display giant BOE aims to secure 40% market share in flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels by 2024, the company said.The company revealed the plan at local display event in Sichuan Province.The company said it has secured 20.3% market share in flexible OLED panels this year. Th

LG Display will start additional investments into its OLED factory dedicated to Apple in the first quarter of 2021, TheElec has learned.It will be to construct the new line, called E6-3, that is expected to begin operations in 2022.LG Display will place orders for the equipment needed in the line ar

Chinese display giant BOE will reattempt to supply Apple its OLED panels starting this month, TheElec has learned.If BOE succeeds, it will be able to supply OLED panels for refurbished iPhone 12 smartphones.The company failed to clinch a deal earlier this year due to low yield rates at its factories

Flexible display evaluation firm FlexiGO has developed evaluation technology for rollable and slidable displays, the company said on Friday.The South Korean firm specializes in evaluating durability of OLED display panels. FlexiGO checks whether cracks appear on flexible OLED panels when they are fo

Samsung Display has sent a request to the US government for a license to allow it to sell panels to Huawei, TheElec has learned.LG Display, meanwhile, was reviewing the matter, people familiar with the matter said.Last month, the US Department of Commerce made it explicit that foreign-made goods tha

Samsung Electronics will reportedly halt operations of its TV factory in Tianjin, China, according to local media Ijiwei.The factory will halt operations in late November, the report said. Samsung was discussing compensation with employees and is planning to sell the factory to local OEMs.Samsung ha

Chinese display giant BOE is aiming to ship over 40 million units of flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels this year, the company said in its conference call for the first half of 2020.The company shipped 16 million units of 6th generation flexible OLED panels in the first half, it sai

Display equipment maker Shindo ENG Lab, which listed on KOSDAQ last month, saw its sales for the first half of 2020 drop a steep 58% from a year prior.The company posted operating loss of 4 billion won and sales of 15.7 billion won in the first half of 2020, it said in its filings to local financial

Hansol Technics is expected to begin contract producing TVs for Samsung Electronics.The company saw sales from Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) module, or LCM, increase substantially in the second quarter.The company said it posted 27.8 billion won in sales from electronics component businesses during t

Display inspection equipment maker K-Mac saw its order backlog increase 78% in the first half of 2020.This will help it improve earnings in the second half of 2020.According to the company’s filings to local financial authorities on Wednesday, K-Mac had 81.7 billion won of order-on-hand as of the fi

South Korean display equipment companies saw their earnings jump in the first half of 2020 thanks to demand from China. This contrast to last year when they saw new orders nosedive, which hurt earnings.Thirty one companies combined posted 5.318 trillion won in sales in the first half of the year, a

Display equipment maker Invenia has clinched a 65 billion won supply deal with HKC of China, the company said on Friday.The amount of the deal is level with that of its sales for the first half of 2020, which was 66.9 billion won.The contract will last until August 19.Invenia’s main good its its dry

LIS has posted 6.8 billion won in operating profits and 74.9 billion in sales in the second quarter of 2020, the company said.It is a rise of 102% and 89%, respectively, year over year. The OLED equipment maker, for the first half of 2020, has secured 11.2 billion won in operating profits and 127.6

The global display ink jet printing market has become a competition of three major companies __ Tokyo Electron, JOLED and Toray Engineering __ with the decline of Kateeva.Though Kateeva’s equipment for thin film encapsulation in small-sized OLED was once used by market leader Samsung Display and ris