Samsung Display was currently developing a new under panel camera technology for its customer Apple to hide the Face ID under the display in the next iPhone, TheElec has learned.Samsung Display’s technology is expected to apply first to Samsung Electronics’ foldable phones launching next year, follo

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Monday that it will spend 300 billion won to expand its flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) factory at Busan.The new spending plan comes atop the 1.3 trillion won investment the company announced earlier in December to build an FC-BGA facility at its plant in Vietnam

LG Display has been evaluating the deposition process for Gen 8.5 (2200x2500mm) OLED panels since December last year, TheElec has learned.The evaluation is being done at its supplier Sunic System’s facility at Paju, sources said. The facility houses Sunic System’s Gen 8.5 half-cut and vertical depos

Samsung Electro-Mechanics was considering expanding its production capacity for flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA), its CEO said on Wednesday.Company CEO Chang Duck-hyun said during Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ annual shareholders’ meeting that the company was in talks with an unspecified customer to

OLED material startup Lordin said on Tuesday that it has filed a patent related to blue OLED technology with high light emission efficiency.Company CEO Oh Hyoung-yun said the technology offers high-efficiency and a longer life span for the blue OLED materials used in OLED panels.Lordin was aiming to

Display glass processing firm Kglass said it can now support processing for ultra-thin glass (UTG) up to 20-inch in size.UTG are used as cover windows in foldable displays. Kglass said it has built a processing system for the glasses at its plant in Gimcheon, North Gyeongsang Province.The plant can

LG Electronics was planning to license out its patents related to smartphone and mobile technologies, TheElec has learned.The company has been reviewing various ways to use these patents since it exited the smartphone business last year.LG Electronics holds some 20,000 patents related 4G, 5G, Wi-Fi

Chinese display giant BOE was in talks with smartphone brand Honor to manufacture a two-stack tandem OLED panel to apply to a smartphone planned for later this year, TheElec has learned.The pair believe that the use of the technology, where the OLED panel has two emission layers, can reduce the powe

LG Display was currently developing two models of OLED panels that it aiming to supply to Apple’s iPads launching in the future, TheElec has learned.LG Display was developing 12.9-inch and 11-inch models, sources said. The company was the exclusive developer of the 12.9-inch model, they said.Samsung

South Korean printed circuit board (PCB) makers Korea Circuit and DAP are expected to supply a similar amount of smartphone boards to Samsung this year as they did in 2021.The pair are each expected to supply late-20% of the total boards that Samsung plans to procure for its smartphones this year, p

Display and fab equipment maker AP Systems said on Thursday that it has recorded 528.7 billion won in revenue and 64.3 billion won in operating profit in 2021.While the revenue figure is a drop of 11% from 2020, operating profit jumped 39% over the same time period, the company said.AP Systems said

Samsung Display has begun the development of OLED panels with a two-stack tandem structure where the panel has two emission layers (EML), TheElec has learned.The South Korean display maker is developing the panels to win the orders from Apple for its OLED iPads that are expected to launch in 2024, s

The earnings of parts suppliers to Samsung’s smartphone operations recovered in 2021 compared to the year prior, their earnings reports show.The earnings of 17 major suppliers showed year-on-year increases in operating profit, including those of Partron (88%), BH (109%), Innox Advanced Materials (12

Samsung Display could be procuring fine metal mask (FMM), which is used in the production of OLED panels, from South Korean firm Poongwon Precision, TheElec has learned.If Poongwon’s FMM is approved for commercial use by Samsung Display, it could challenge Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing’s dominance in

Samsung Display is likely to add Solus Advanced Materials as a supplier for capping layers (CPL) in its M12 OLED material set, TheElec has learned.The South Korean display maker had previously only used Hodogaya Chemical as a supplier for CPL in its M11 OLED material set, sources said.Samsung Displa

LG Innotek said on Tuesday that it will spend 413 billion won on manufacturing flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA), its official confirmation of entering the high-end semiconductor board market.The South Korean component maker said it will spend the fund up to April 2024.FC-BGA is harder to manufactu

Samsung is using the same OLED material set __ the M11 __ for the panel on the 6.8-inch Galaxy S22 Ultra as the Galaxy S21 Ultra, TheElec has learned.This is likely an attempt to control cost as Samsung’s focus is to increase the shipment of the S22 series compared to the S21 and S20 series, sources

LG Display has made a proposal to LG Electronics to launch a transparent OLED TV, TheElec has learned.The display maker has proposed the launch of a TV that uses a 55-inch transparent OLED panel to LG Electronics’ Home Entertainment Company, its TV business unit, sources said.The panel will be fixed

Chinese display giant BOE is facing production problems in OLED panels for iPhones due to the ongoing global chip shortage, TheElec has learned.The shortage will affect production this month and next month, sources said.BOE procures display driver ICs for the panels from South Korean chip firm LX Se

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 4 launching later this year will have a designated slot for the S Pen stylus and come with a similar screen size as its predecessor the Galaxy Z Fold 3, TheElec has learned.The South Korean tech giant has recently finalized its plan to make a designated slot on the foldable p