LG Display’s second quarter operating losses are expected to deepen from the first quarter after failing to close a deal for supplying OLED panels to Huawei’s P30 Pro smartphones, according to financial sector sources on June 18.LG will have to shoulder most of the costs involved, they forecast, sin

LG Display has brought in TFT deposition equipment earlier than expected for 10.5th generation OLED lines at its P10 plant in Paju of Gyeonggi Province to help prep for mass production, sources close to the matter said on June 12.The equipment is mainly manufactured by US-based Applied Materials, wi

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei visited South Korea last week to meet with parts suppliers to enlist their support, according to sources close to the matter on June 4.“Huawei admitted it may have to cut production, but asked for steady supplies even if that’s the case,” said one of the source

Samsung Display failed to run a booth at this year’s Display Week conference organized by Society of Information Display(SID) in San Jose earlier this month. Some say the display-maker may forgo the event next year as well.Booth location was the main cause for Samsung’s reticence, they noted.“Until

HIMS, a South Korean manufacturer of Fine Metal Masks (FMM) for small-and-mid-sized OLED panels, is expected see a sales boost from its Chinese operations.Market estimates for HIMS’ revenues this year are at 80 billion won (US$ 67.3 million), just shy of the 90 billion won-plus figure two years ago.

JUSUNG Engineering will produce the first domestic 10.5 generation thin film transistor (TFT) vapor deposition CVD equipment. The first customer to be delivered to is LG Display’s 10.5-generation large OLED production line at the P10 plant in Paju, Gyeonggi-do. TFT deposition equipment of higher tha

"Samsung and Toray have continued their cooperative relationships in the field of materials."Jeon Hae-Sang, CEO of Toray Advanced Materials, said in a lecture at Soongsil University in Seoul on the 9th. In his lecture, he emphasized the R&D in the materials field and technology capability of Japan T

This month, Charm Engineering will sign a contract to sell its last remaining Vietnamese property. The company plans to focus on its core business, display repair equipment, by organizing the extra businesses started by former largest shareholders and executives. This year, first, the company plans

Sharp, which suddenly stopped its panel supply after being acquired by Foxconn in Taiwan, offered to resume supply of LCD panels for TV to Samsung Electronics earlier this year, only to be rejected.A former executive of the Samsung Electronics Visual Display (VD) Business Department officially comme

BOE of China’s mask tensor orders are expected to create competition between domestic companies. It is expected to be intense as the company that receives orders this time is likely to continue supplying BOE’s new plants.According to the industry on the 9th, the mask tensor orders for B12, the third

Despite the fact that plastics were adopted as the cover window for the foldable smartphones to be mass produced for the first time this year, the glass industry expects that it is highly likely that the material will be switched to glass. It is based on the determination that glass is better than p

Chinese display maker BOE surpassed LG Display in the monthly market share of the large LCD panel market based on the surface size. The display industry has reacted to this change as "happening as expected but sooner than predicted."The IHS Markets reported on the 3rd that BOE topped LG Display to b

It has been confirmed that Samsung Display and BOE in China are the major suppliers of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels for premium smartphone P30 series released by Huawei on the 26th. LG Display, which had been the main supplier of flexible OLED panels for Huawei smartphones, has been re

Interflex, a manufacturer of flexible printed circuit boards (FPCBs), has secured Sunny Optical and BOE as new customers. It will supply RFPCB for camera modules for Sunny Optical and organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays for BOE.According to the industry on the 27th, Interflex has secured Su

Wooree ETI, an electronic component maker, has changed its name to ‘Wooree BIO’ and is seeking out a new frontier in the bio industry. The company also revealed the goal of achieving sales of 50 billion won within three years in the bio-business.Wooree ETI announced its plan to change its name and p

A local media source, Commercial Times (工商時報), reported on the 11th that He Zhaoyang, CEO of Taiwanese polarizer maker Cheng Mei Materials Technology (CMMT), said, "We raised the selling prices of polarizers shipped from Kunshan factory in China. And material polarizer maker SAPO in Shenzhen, China,

Strategies for micro light-emitting-diodes (LEDs) of each region have been introduced. Micro LEDs are considered to be the next generation display technology because they are superior to liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) in terms of brightness, contrast, respon

The market share of Samsung Display's small and medium-sized organic light-emitting diode (OLED), which maintains a "super-gap", is expected to fall under 90% in the first quarter of this year.Market researcher, IHS Markits predicted that Samsung Display's market share in the smartphone OLED panel m

Gyo-Young Jin, the head (President) of the memory business division of Samsung Electronics Device Solution (DS) will assume the position of the 11th President of the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association.President Jin was elected as the President based on the unanimous vote by the board of direct

Last year, Chinese display panel maker, Tianma ranked No. 1 in the Low-Temperature Polycrystalline Silicon (LTPS) Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) market share of smart phones. This is the first time that a Chinese display panel maker has taken the lead in the small- and medium- size display market.Acco