LG Display is planning to apply its new technology on its OLED panels for TV to increase their luminance by 30% during the second quarter next year, when mass production will begin, the company said at a press conference on Wednesday.The technology, called OLED.EX, uses deuterium, one of two stable

APS Holdings is planning to use most of the funds it secured recently through share offering and sales in its OLED fine metal mask (FMM) business, TheElec has learned.The company had secured around 60 billion won in fresh funds in the past two months.Last month, it issued convertible bonds for 18.6

LG Display will be supplying low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) thin-film transistor (TFT) OLED panels for Apple’s iPhones launching next year, TheElec has learned.Winning the order for LTPO TFT OLED from Cupertino, despite the volume being small, is critical for the South Korean panel mak

Samsung is planning to manufacture 200 units of 110-inch MicroLED TV aimed at homes in January, TheElec has learned.This amount is unusually high for a single month as only hundreds of MicroLED TVs had been sold a year so far, with the company usually manufacturing a dozen of them per month.Samsung

Taiwan’s Asus was the largest vendor for OLED notebooks this year, according to analyst firm Sigmaintell.The Taiwanese firm controlled 36% market share in the sector this year, the firm said.This was followed by Samsung and Lenovo, which held market shares of 20% and 16%, respectively, Sigmaintell s

Oppo’s first foldable phone Find N which will be unveiled on Wednesday will use Samsung Display’s foldable OLED panel, TheElec has learned.The South Korean display panel maker has supplied the 7.1-inch folding OLED panel to the Chinese smartphone maker, sources said.The external 5.45-inch flat OLED

Samsung’s premium TV lineup for 2022 will consist of 8K MiniLED, 4K OLED and 4K MiniLED technologies, TheElec has learned.The 8K (7680x4320) MiniLED TV, which will carry the Neo QLED TV brand, will be the highest tier out of three technologies, sources said.Samsung’s MicroLED TVs are still the highe

Apple’s iPhone Pro models launching in 2022 will have hole-display for the first time, TheElec has learned.The 6.06-inch iPhone Pro and 6.7-inch iPhone Pro Max models will have hole-displays, sources said.The two other models, the regular 6.06-inch iPhone and 6.7-inch iPhone Max models will continue

Samsung Electronics has started an augmented reality (AR) HoloLens project with Microsoft, TheElec has learned.The project, which will last two years, started sometime in the summer this year, sources said. HoloLens is Microsoft’s AR display device model.Samsung had formed a taskforce for the projec

Samsung Display is planning to add three more foldable module lines at its factory in Vietnam by next year to expand its foldable panel production capacity, TheElec has learned.Once the addition is complete, the number of company’s foldable module lines will increase from seven to 10.This will expan

Inkjet printing firm Unijet has supplied inkjet equipment for microOLED to China’s Sidtek, TheElec has learned.The equipment will be used by the Chinese company in its production of microOLED displays.The South Korean company had supplied inkjet equipment for thin-film encapsulation (TFE) for MicroO

Samsung Electronics had recently sent requests to Samsung Display and AUO to develop a 12.7-inch thin-film transistor (TFT) to apply on its MicroLED TVs, TheElec has learned.Specifically, the South Korean tech giant has requested that the display panel makers develop low-temperature polycrystalline

Companies from both India and China have shown interest in buying Samsung Display’s liquid crystal display (LCD) equipment at its now-defunct L8-1 LCD production line, TheElec has learned.L8-1 line was previously used by the South Korean display panel maker to manufacture panels for TV and IT produc

South Korean display equipment makers are expected to face a difficult year in terms of earnings in 2022 due to conservative spending expected from global display panel makers.As of November, orders for OLED panel production equipment were lower than it was over the same time period in 2020.Last yea

Chinese display giant BOE was in the process of converting its three factories __ B7, B11 and B12 __ to manufacture smartphone flexible OLED panels for Apple, analyst firm UBI Research has claimed.Because of this, BOE will likely overtake LG Display as the larger OLED supplier for iPhones by 2023, U

China’s TCL has unveiled a 65-inch 8K resolution OLED panel prototype at its own conference in China on Tuesday.The prototype was developed by its display panel subsidiary CSOT, together with JOLED, and manufactured using the inkjet technology, TCL said at its conference dubbed 2021 TCL Huaxing Glob

BOE has started operations of its third flexible OLED line, TheElec has learned.The Chinese display giant’s B12 line at Chongqing, China has started production, people familiar with the matter said.B12 line consists of three stages: the first stage has started production. The second stage will start

Apple has begun talks with its South Korean panel suppliers on applying OLED panels to its MacBook line, TheElec has learned.The iPhone maker has initially planned to launch its first MacBook with an OLED panel in 2025 but this plan is likely to be postponed, people familiar with the matter said.App

Samsung Display has placed orders for equipment to its suppliers that it plans to use for its new mobile OLED production line, which will likely be called A4E, TheElec has learned.The new production line will use Gen 6 (1500x1850mm) substrates to manufacture small OLED panels that will be used in sm

MiniLED TV panels will become even more affordable than their OLED counterparts in the years to come, according to analyst firm Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC).For a 65-inch UHD TV panel, MiniLED is 2% cheaper compared to OLED as of this year.But the former will be 15% cheaper is 2025, DSCC