Chinese display maker CSOT is planning to start production of OLED panels made with inkjet printing near the year’s end, TheElec has learned.TCL COST had said in December last year that it will launch inkjet printing OLED sometime during the second half of 2024.The technique uses a inkjet head nozzl

When Apple will apply under panel face ID technology to its iPhones is up in the air as display suppliers are yet to secure the necessary technologies, TheElec has learned.For Cupertino to commercialize the technology, both its major display suppliers Samsung Display and LG Display need to deliver.T

Apple has recently received a glass board-based OLED panel from Japan’s JDI aimed for mixed reality devices like its Vision Pro, TheElec has learned.The panel has a resolution of approximately 1,500 pixels per inch (ppi), sources said, so it is likely aimed at a budget model MR device.Apple’s Vision

LG Display acquired samples of black pixel define layer (PDL) from Japan’s Mitsubishi and other companies during the second quarter, TheElec has learned.The material is crucial for the application of color filter on encapsulation (CoE) on foldable panels to make them thinner, sources said.CoE replac

Sapien Semiconductors said on Monday it has signed a deal with a Silicon Valley-based tech giant to develop LED on silicon (LEDoS) chip for application in augmented reality (AR) glass.The deal is worth 4.8 billion won and the contract expires in October next year, the company said.The chip will come

Samsung Display is aiming to reduce the power consumption of its display panels by over 50% to meet the needs of the so-called “AI era,” a senior executive said.The display panel maker was developing technologies that remove all factors that influence power consumption in its display, Samsung Displa

SNU Precision has won an order from Chinese microdisplay maker BCDTEK to supply its OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) deposition equipment, TheElec has learned.The equipment are used to deposit OLED on silicon wafers. Display made this way, which are usually in the 1-inch range in size, are used in realty de

Samsung Display signed a contract with Microsoft to develop and supply OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) for the latter’s mixed reality (MR) device, TheElec has learned.The South Korean display maker is expected to supply hundreds of thousands of units, sources said.Microsoft was developing the MR device for

LG Chem is expected surpass Dupont in OLED evaporation material this year, according to data from Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC).This forecast by DSCC comes amid LG Chem’s winning of orders for electron blocking layer by Samsung Display for small OLED panels. Solus Advanced Materials had be

Apple is expected to use LG Display as a secondary vendor for OLED screens on the iPhone SE4 launching next year, TheElec has learned.The brand is Cupertino’s budget model and has used BOE as the sole vendor for its screens for a while now.Next year, BOE will be the primary vendor while LG Display,

Avatec said on Monday that it plans to manufacture ultra-thin glass (UTG) for foldable notebook panels.UTG are used as cover windows for foldable panels. The foldable OLED panel LG Display and Samsung Display are developing for Apple is also expected to use UTG.Avatec said the UTG will require thin-

Ultra-thin glass (UTG) maker Dowoo Insys is planning to list on the Korean Exchange next year.Company CEO Lee Jae-gyu, told TheElec on Friday that Dowoo Insys will file for the preliminary review to go public to financial authorities in the summer.Kiwoom Securities is underwriting the deal. The secu

Samsung Display was looking for a new contractor to handle the back-end etching work for its rigid and hybrid OLED panels, TheElec has learned.This was because one of its contractors for this work, Soulbrain, is planning to exit the business, sources said.Samsung Display currently manufactures rigid

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 received approval from customer Apple to supply OLED panels for iPhone 16 Pro Max, TheElec has learned.This is ahead of Samsung Display, which has never happened before, sources said.Last month, LG Display and Samsung Display both received approval to supply OLED panels for iPhone 16

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

LG Display has secured approval to supply OLED panels by Apple for iPhone 16 Pro, alongside rival Samsung Display, TheElec has learned.It is the first time that it secured such an approval in a timely fashion before the phones go into mass production.In the past, LG Display received approval months

Samsung Display expects LED on silicon (LEDoS) displays used on augmented reality devices to be a monolithic one panel, a senior executive said.Samsung Display vice president Huh Jong-moo said on Thursday in the Microdisplay Conference hosted by TheElec that LEDoS technology is expected to evolve fr

Samsung’s upcoming foldable phone Galaxy Z Flip 6 will have a thicker cover glass than its predecessors, TheElec has learned.The ultra-thin glass (UTG) cover window will be 50 micrometers thick compared to its predecessors’ 30 micrometers, sources said.This was being done to increase the hardiness o

Samsung Display showed off its deposition mask to be used in the production RGB OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) display at the Display Week event hosted by the Society of Information Display (SID) in the US from May 14 to 16.Rival LG Display also showed off its own OLEDoS technology at the event, a white O