Chinese metal company Vital Materials has been confirmed as the buyer of Samsung Corning Advanced Glass’s factory in Gumi, South Korea.Vital announced that it bought the ceramic target business of Samsung on its homepage. The Gumi factory has been producing targets used its display and solar panels.

LG Electronics’ upcoming dual screen smartphone LG Wing will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 765G, TheElec has confirmed.Snapdragon 765G is an application processor (AP) made using the 7-nanometer (nm) process. It is also the industry’s first 5G modem (Snapdragon X52) and RF system integrated on

Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are expected to compete over flagship smartphone market share in South Korea.Both companies are expected to produce around 300,000 units of their Galaxy Z Flip 5G and LG Wing smartphones, respectively.LG will be producing its dual screen smartphone in Vietnam.

Dongwoo Fine-Chem, the South Korean subsidiary of Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical, is planning to launch an in-display 5G antenna, TheElec has learned.The company is hoping to commercialize them within the next one to two years and accrue sales.In-display antenna are not placed in the smartphone. Instead,

KEC has clinched a supply deal with Tesla to provide them with LV MOSFET TVS used in digital cockpits, the company said on Tuesday.Supply for the chips will begin in 2021.They will be used for over-voltage protection and over-current protection on touch screen liquid crystal display (LCD) panels on

LG Chem is planning to exit the display pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) business, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Monday.It comes four years after the South Korean company bought the business from LG Hausys.The company has recently notified the plan to its subcontractors for its fi

Samsung Display has sold its Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) factory in Suzhou, China to CSOT, the companies announced.COST has acquired a 60% stake in Samsung Suzhou LCD (SSL) and a 100% stake in Suzhou Display (SSM) for a total of US$1.08 billion.Samsung Suzhou LCD’s ownership structure will change t

Wonik IPS will acquire parts of the display business of Semes, the equipment subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, for 82 billion won, the company announced.The two have signed a binding MOU for the deal, Wonik IPS said.Wonik is aiming to buy Semes’ display photo and wet equipment technology, sales rig

Japan Display (JDI) will sell a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) factory and the land it sits on to Sharp for US$390 million, the company announced on Friday.The company also said it will sell the equipment at the Hakusan LCD plant to an “overseas customer” for US$285 million, JDI said. The customer in

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

LG Display said on Tuesday its organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel for TVs have received Intertek’s Accurate Picture Quality certification.The UK-based quality assessment company measured the delta zero color fidelity, black luminance and viewing angle colorshift of the OLED panel.LG scored 0.

Seoul National University professor Hong Yong-taek has won the 17th Merck Award at International Meeting of Information Displays (IMID), Merck Korea said on Monday.The price is given for academic papers in display technology. The award was set by IMID and hosted by Korean Information Display Society

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

Samsung Electronics will run pre-orders for its Galaxy Tab S7 series from August 18 to 22 for South Korea, the company said on Friday.The regular Galaxy Tab S7 comes with a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) for the first time for a flagship tablet. It has used LCD for Tab S7 Lite launched earlier this ye

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

Samsung Electronics has restarted its original design manufacturing (ODM) operations after it was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic.The company’s ODM partner Wingtech of China has launched the Galaxy M01s smartphone last month, which is aimed at Asian markets. The phone is a derivative of the Galaxy M

Optical film company Shinwha Intertek is entering the encapsulant market for large-sized organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels, the company told TheElec on Tuesday.It has already provided samples for multiple display panel makers, including LG Display, a company spokesperson said. Shinwha was e

Wooree E&L has seen volume increase in its shipment of LED modules to LG Display thanks to LG InnoTek exiting the business.LG InnoTek has stopped its production of backlight unit (BLU) LED modules for IT devices and TV in the first half of the year. It still produces LED modules for automobiles, how

Samsung Electronics has unveiled the new Galaxy Tab S7 tablet series as well as the new Galaxy Watch3 smartwatch and Galaxy Buds Live wireless earphones at Unpacked on Wednesday.The 11-inch Galaxy Tab S7 sports a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and the 12.4-inch Galaxy Tab S7 Plus has an organic light

Seoul Semiconductor has significantly increased the LED it supplies to LG Electronics for the latter’s LCD TVs, TheElec has learned.It is due to LG InnoTek halting LED module production for backlight units (BLU) used in LCD TVs. South Korean LED maker Ledaz has also entered LG Electronics’ supply ch