Samsung SDI said on Tuesday that it plans to sell its polarizing film business to Wuxi Hengxin Optoelectronic Materials for 1.12 trillion won.The deal includes all of the South Korean battery maker’s shares in its subsidiary in Wuxi, China as well as its domestic units related to polarizing film in

Chinese display panel maker CSOT has sent requests for quotations to South Korean equipment makers for Gen 6 OLED production equipment, TheElec has learned.Multiple equipment makers have received the request and are reviewing the profitability of assembling the kits, sources said.CSOT will decide ne

LG Display has supplied its two-stack tandem OLED panel to Dell’s notebook, TheElec has learned.It is the first time that the OLED tech is being used on a notebook.Dell’s XPS13 will use LG Display’s 13-inch OLED panel. The notebook offers a liquid crystal display (LCD) model and an OLED model. The L

Apple unveiled its first iPads that sport an OLED panel rather than a liquid crystal display one on Tuesday.Cupertino in its online Let Loose event showed off its new iPad Pro models, which have a two-stack tandem OLED panel as their screen.The iPhone maker also unveiled new iPad Air models that doe

Samsung Electronics vice chairman and co-CEO Han Jong-hee returned from its three-day visit to China on Wednesday.Han, who is also the head of Samsung’s Device Experience (DX) division, which makes smartphones, TVs, and appliances, was accompanied by Samsung’s head of procurement at its TV Business

Whether demand for TVs recovers this year in Europe will determine the outlook of the global TV panel market this year, a senior analyst at Omdia said on Wednesday.Inflation and the war in Ukraine have dented demand for TVs in Europe, Omdia senior principal analyst JinHan Ricky Park said Korea Displ

Samsung Display said on Sunday that it has begun installation of equipment in its latest Gen 8.6 OLED production line to be set up at its Asan plant in South Korea.The new A6 line will be built by converting its existing L8 line, which manufactured liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, and start prod

South Korea will be able to retake its position as the largest display panel producer from China by 2027, Samsung Display’s CEO said on Thursday.Samsung Display CEO Choi Joo-sun told reporters at the sidelines of the Korea Display Industry Association’s (KDIA) first board meeting for this year, wher

LG Electronics said on Monday that it will launch its 2024-model TVs in South Korea next month.The new models in its premium OLED Evo and QNED brands will come with upped AI deep learning and clearer picture qualities, the company said.LG OLED Evo TVs will come in 97, 83, and 77-inch sizes as well a

Samsung Display, BOE, and Tianma have proposed their prices to Apple for OLED panels aimed at iPhone SE4 that will launch early in 2025, TheElec has learned.Cupertino has so far only used LCD panels for its budget iPhone line but it is planning to upgrade this to OLED next year.Sources said Samsung

South Korea’s semiconductor exports in January increased substantially, showing the global chip market is on track to rebound.The Ministry of Science and ICT said on Friday that the country recorded US$16.35 billion in exports and US$11.85 billion in imports for tech-related products, resulting in a

LG Display on Wednesday shared the list of its customers for its automotive OLED panels.The South Korean display panel maker had General Motors, Volvo, Jaguar Land Rover, Porsche, and Lucid as its customers, LG Display Senior Vice President of Automotive Business Group Byeong Koo Kim said at IMID 20

LG Chem is planning to sell its IT film business as part of its wider plan to restructure its non-essential businesses, TheElec has learned.Sources said the company is planning to sell the business unit within the year.LG Chem earlier halted the operation of its petrochemical plant in Yeosu and is r

BOE chairman Chen Yanshun didn’t make a visit to Samsung, a key customer of the Chinese display panel maker, during his visit to South Korea in April, TheElec has learned.It is extremely rare for a high-level company executive of a component maker to not make a visit to a customer during a foreign t

A cloud hangs over the profitability of Gen 8 OLED. This is because Apple’s revenues from MacBooks are dropping, a key product that would use the OLED panels made by display panel maker’s Gen 8 OLED production lines.The iPhone maker’s revenue from MacBooks was US$7.168 billion during its fiscal seco

Samsung has ordered its TV and smartphone businesses to find a solution to improve their earnings, TheElec has learned.Samsung reported 63.75 trillion won in revenue and 640 billion won in operating income for the first quarter, a drop of 18% and 95%, respectively, from the same time period a year a

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

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

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

The Korean CEO of TCL CSOT will step back from management of the Chinese display giant.TCL CSOT CEO Kim Woo-shik, who is also senior vice president of TCL, will leave his current role and become an advisor at TCL.Kim, who previously worked at LG Display before joining the Chinese firm, had been at C