Display heat treatment equipment maker Viatron Technologies is looking to acquire companies in the semiconductor and battery equipment industry for new growth, the company said on Thursday.KOSDAQ-listed companies as well as startups were all potential candidates, a company spokesperson said.One of t

Display panel production equipment maker Avaco was developing equipment for use in semiconductor production, the company said.Development started last year and the new equipment will contribute to sales starting in the second half of 2021 at the earliest, a Avaco spokesperson said.The equipment will

Samsung Electronics has scrapped its plan to put in under display camera (UDC) on the Galaxy S21 smartphones series launching next year, TheElec has learned.The South Korean was postponing the application of the tech due to low production yield rate, people with direct knowledge of the matter said.S

Samsung Display has given up the rights of some of its patents in its employee invention lawsuit.The employee who first filed the lawsuit back in 2017 over the rights to oxide thin film transistors (TFT) used for 6th generation liquid crystal display (LCD) has claimed the company was attempting to l

Chinese display giant BOE aims to secure 40% market share in flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels by 2024, the company said.The company revealed the plan at local display event in Sichuan Province.The company said it has secured 20.3% market share in flexible OLED panels this year. Th

Samsung Display has stressed that its plan to produce QD (quantum dot) display panels next year was on schedule at an industry meeting on Wednesday.The company took part in the 27th business reorganization planning review meeting held at the Korea Institute for Advanced Technology (KITA) building Se

LG Display will start additional investments into its OLED factory dedicated to Apple in the first quarter of 2021, TheElec has learned.It will be to construct the new line, called E6-3, that is expected to begin operations in 2022.LG Display will place orders for the equipment needed in the line ar

Canada-based startup OTI Lumionics’s cathode patterning materials is expected to be applied to organic light emitting diode (OLED) under display camera (UDC) technology next year.OTI received Series A Plus funding from LG Technology Ventures earlier this year. UDC technology allows cameras to be und

Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) will help South Korean equipment and component companies enter the Chinese market.KDIA will form an export consortium to take part in C-Touch & Display tradeshow taking place between November 19 to 21 at Shenzhen, China. The consortium will be part of the Ko

Chinese display giant BOE will reattempt to supply Apple its OLED panels starting this month, TheElec has learned.If BOE succeeds, it will be able to supply OLED panels for refurbished iPhone 12 smartphones.The company failed to clinch a deal earlier this year due to low yield rates at its factories

Flexible display evaluation firm FlexiGO has developed evaluation technology for rollable and slidable displays, the company said on Friday.The South Korean firm specializes in evaluating durability of OLED display panels. FlexiGO checks whether cracks appear on flexible OLED panels when they are fo

Chinese display giant BOE is aiming to ship over 40 million units of flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels this year, the company said in its conference call for the first half of 2020.The company shipped 16 million units of 6th generation flexible OLED panels in the first half, it sai

Display equipment maker Shindo ENG Lab, which listed on KOSDAQ last month, saw its sales for the first half of 2020 drop a steep 58% from a year prior.The company posted operating loss of 4 billion won and sales of 15.7 billion won in the first half of 2020, it said in its filings to local financial

Display inspection equipment maker K-Mac saw its order backlog increase 78% in the first half of 2020.This will help it improve earnings in the second half of 2020.According to the company’s filings to local financial authorities on Wednesday, K-Mac had 81.7 billion won of order-on-hand as of the fi

APS Holdings’ paper on fine metal mask (FMM) has been published Journal of Society for Information Display (SID), the company said on Wednesday.The company said its president Chiwoo Kim’s paper FMM was published on the August issue of the prestigious journal.Kim introduced material and laser pattern

South Korean display equipment companies saw their earnings jump in the first half of 2020 thanks to demand from China. This contrast to last year when they saw new orders nosedive, which hurt earnings.Thirty one companies combined posted 5.318 trillion won in sales in the first half of the year, a

A former employee of display equipment maker Invenia has appealed against a guilty verdict handed down by a court in South Korea over alleged technology leaks to competitor Wonik IPS.The employee started working for Invenia on December, 2013. The company was the first in South Korea to develop dry e

LG Display has supplied world’s largest monitor maker Dell with light emitting diode (LED) Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) panels, TheElec has learned.The South Korean display maker provided the panels for Dell’s 31.5-inch medical miniLED monitor launched earlier this year.MiniLED is being touted as th

LG Display is aiming to ship 5 million large-sized OLED panels this year, the company said on Thursday at its conference call for second quarter earnings.Company CFO Seo Dong hee said the COVID-19 pandemic remained a risk but it will react to the market situation to find sales opportunities.5 millio

The global display ink jet printing market has become a competition of three major companies __ Tokyo Electron, JOLED and Toray Engineering __ with the decline of Kateeva.Though Kateeva’s equipment for thin film encapsulation in small-sized OLED was once used by market leader Samsung Display and ris