The material industry is working on the physical company division, mergers, and reorganization. This is to find new growth opportunities through discovering and nurturing future markets and businesses.On the 1st, LG Chem reorganized into four new business divisions. It has reorganized its basic mate

Samsung Display has recently requested quotes from a display equipment maker DMS, with which it had not traded in the past few years, for LCD device cleaning equipment. It seems that Samsung Electronics has done so as SEMES, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, has begun to liquidate the LCD equipme

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

Yoon Soo-Young, Director of Research Center (Executive Director) of LG Display, said, “Ultimately, display technology should advance toward being rollable. The key technologies required for rollable displays are metal foil replacement and transparent polyimide (PI)” at the ‘2019 Semiconductor Displa

SEMES, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics and the largest semiconductor display equipment maker in Korea, is restructuring.The key is to sort out the liquid crystal display (LCD) equipment business. LCD equipment accounts for most of the sales of the SEMES display equipment business, but the decisi

Yang Byeong-Deok, Managing Director of Samsung Electronics’s Wireless Division, Display Development, introduced "Infinite-O Display" and "Blue Light Reduction" technologies at the Galaxy S10 Display Technology Briefing held at the Samsung Electronics Press Center in Jung-gu, Seoul, on 14th and said,

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,

'D Film, the Secret Weapon'Samsung's new premium TV has dramatically improved left and right viewing angle performance.Recently On the 14th, Samsung Electronics’ Video Display Business Division completed development of 'D film', special material for enhancing the marketability of premium QLED TVs. T

LG Electronics is releasing a rollable 8K TV in the second half of the year. For 8K TV, there is a two-track strategy for liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). The price of new OLED TV products is 30% lower than last year.Kwon Bong-Seok, head (President) of the MC

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

LG Display held a 'display technology briefing session' on March 27th at Magok LG Science Park. Beginning with defining displays, the company has explained future progress directions and display technology leading to cathode ray tube (CRT), plasma display panel (PDP), liquid crystal display (LCD), o

Recently, LED Inside, the LED-specialized media, presented the technical problems that are emerging with Micro light emitting diodes (LEDs) which must be solved in new display technology.Micro LEDs are superior to an organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) as well as liquid crystal displays (LCDs) in

STI chose to appoint an executive from Samsung as their new CEO. It is considered as a move to strengthen their display business.On February 25, STI had made a proposal to appoint Lee Woo-suk as their new CEO at the general meeting of shareholders, which is going to be held on March 22. Kim Jung-you

"Half of Samsung's ultra-large TVs sold in Korea are 8K TVs. This year, the sales target is more than double-digit revenue growth in the premium TV market (typically priced at more than $2500). "Han Jong-Hee, President of Samsung Electronics Visual Display Business, said as such at the ‘QLED 8K’ key

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

Domestic companies that supply parts to Apple are also expected to suffer difficulties for some time due to the sluggish iPhone sales. LG Innotek, which relies heavily on iPhone sales, is expected to be hurt significantly. According to the earnings reports for the first quarter of the fiscal year 20

"We will continue to focus on organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and, by concentrating on growing commercial and automotive businesses, we will raise the proportion of OLED and growth businesses to more than 50% by 2020 (the latter half of 20% in 2018) by 2020."Sang Bum Han, Vice Chairman of LG D

Wonik IPS, which is merging Wonik Terasemicon, is becoming a large equipment company that provides a ‘total solution’ for the semiconductor display field. Their goal is to become a top 10 global equipment company through active R&D, diversified equipment portfolio, and a diversified customer base.Wo

On the 11th, Chinese display maker Tianma announced through the investor exchange platform of Shenzhen Stock Exchange that it has been producing a "hole display" and that "Consumer products will be released soon." It replied to the question of investors asking for facts and supply with "In talks of

Between the large organic light emitting diode (OLED) based on quantum dot (QD) color filter (CF) that is being prepared by Samsung Display and LG Display's white OLED (WOLED) panel, which has a superior competitive advantage?The analysts say Samsung will take the lead if it achieves the yield of ov