LG Electronics sent 100 employees from home in South Korea, along with interpreters, to its smartphone factory in Vietnam to kickstart operations as soon as the local staff receives sufficient training, industry sources said on Nov. 18.It would take around 6 months for the employees to be sent into

The shipment of OLED panels surpassed that of LTPS LCDs for the first time for smartphone displays in the third quarter of this year, according to market research firm IHS Markit this month.In total, 147 million OLED panels were shipped. The volume for LTPS LCDs were just over 100 million. Samsung D

South Korea's LG Electronics said on Nov. 5 that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Chinese TV maker Hisense at a court in California, US.“We decided to go ahead with the lawsuit after Hisense ignored both our warnings and requests to stop the violation and come to the table,” said a

On Sept. 25, LG Electronics unveiled a device for reinforcing the quality of its TVs in a move to refute Samsung’s latest criticism saying LG TVs are incapable of playing 8K images. The electronics maker also revealed a video supporting its claims and countering Samsung’s accusations.In the video, a

Samsung Electronics demanded for LG Electronics to stop with its negative campaigning, referring to a complaint that LG filed with South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission last week."(Such) exhaustive disputes are creating confusion among consumers and market players at a time when the business environme

LG Innotek is pushing back its plans to completely shut down its PCB manufacturing plant in Cheongju a month later to November according to industry sources on Sept. 19.The delay is being caused by LG Innotek’s foreign car clients that have yet to give their verification for the 4M checklist – Man,

LG Display had a demonstration comparing the 8K quantum dot LCDs with 4K OLED displays at the OLED Big Bang media day in Beijing on Sept. 19. The results showed the OLED panels being much more beneficial for eye health and energy efficiency."We believe the era of OLEDs has dawned in China after our

LG Innotek will be supplying 3D Time of Flight (ToF) modules for Apple’s next generation iPads and iPhones in 2020, according to industry sources on Sept. 16.ToF is a camera technology that allows for 3D viewing that can be applied to VR, AR and 5G. ToF is to be applied to the iPad Pros to be launch

Samsung Electronics is expected to give Sony a run for its money by developing special image sensors for Time of Flight (ToF) modules that allow for 3D sensing by the end of this year, according to industry sources on Sept. 3. Mass production is planned for the first quarter of next year.This means

It looks like China’s TCL is once again following close on South Korea’s heel, this time in the vertical TV business.On Aug. 16, TCL held an event marking the launch of its first vertical TV, the XESS in China’s Guangdong Province. Citing data from Penguin Think Tank, the TCL chief executive said th

LG Innotek is most likely to shutter its operations in Cheongju producing smartphone HDI PCBs by October, according to industry sources on July 29.They said that some of the lines have already been halted, and that LG Innotek is relying on other PCB companies to handle the orders. “LG Innotek more o

The head of LG Electronics’ center for material production and equipment innovation has denied that the center every took illicit profit from suppliers as part of an “unspoken agreement.”“There’s no more confusion or controversy on this,” Hong Soon-kook, the chief of the center, told The Elec on the

LG Electronics is in talks with BOE on buying smartphone OLED panels from the Chinese display maker, according to industry sources on July 1. This means there’s a good chance that the new smartphones from LG next year would be fitted with BOE’s OLED screens.For LG Display, this isn’t good news becau

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

Samsung Electronics’ mobile communications arm is moving to outsource more budget smartphones to attract more consumers in growing markets like China, according to industry sources on May 29.The sources told The Elec that following Samsung Electronics’ Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s visit to China las

LG Display will be rolling out 48-inch OLED TVs in 2020, according to a top executive.“It’s a strategy to solidify our footing in the high-end TV market, while continuing to have presence in the standard and premium segments,” Oh Chang-ho, the South Korean display-maker’s vice president of the TV bu

YAS, the only deposition equipment maker mass-producing large OLEDs, expects to complete its new factory for the production of 10.5-generation (10.5G) equipment at the end of August. A formal order (PO) is expected at the time of completion of the factory. The 10.5G deposition equipment to be produc

LG Electronics will release an '8K resolution 88-inch OLED TV' in July or August at the latest. The '8K OLED TV' will be released first, and a ‘Rollable TV’ will be put on the market by the end of this year. LG Display's 10.5-generation factory in Paju is officially confirmed to start its operation

The smartphone substrate factory production capacity of LG Innotek has plunged by 70%. As LG Electronics has decided to relocate its smartphone production line in Pyeongtaek to Vietnam, it is unlikely that LG Innotek's PCB factory will survive.According to a report by LG Innotek filed to the Financi

Chinese TV maker TCL said that claimed the No. 1 position in the US TV market in March this year, citing US market research firm NPD's data. The IHS market research, which is often mainly discussed in the industry, has not been released. In the last year's overall TV sales rank, TCL claimed the seco