LG Chem has sent a task force to Poland to reorganize its factories there, TheElec has learned.The South Korean battery giant aims to improve management efficiency, clear inventory and secure a stable yield rate at its factories in Kobierzyce near Wroclaw.The four month reorganization has already st

Seoul Semiconductor has won its patent lawsuit in the US, the company said on Tuesday.The court in California has ordered a permanent injunction against LED products made by Philips and Feit that were sold by The Factory Depot.Philip’s signage affected by the injunction use Lextar’s LED package and

Samsung Display has sent a request to the US government for a license to allow it to sell panels to Huawei, TheElec has learned.LG Display, meanwhile, was reviewing the matter, people familiar with the matter said.Last month, the US Department of Commerce made it explicit that foreign-made goods tha

Samsung Electronics will reportedly halt operations of its TV factory in Tianjin, China, according to local media Ijiwei.The factory will halt operations in late November, the report said. Samsung was discussing compensation with employees and is planning to sell the factory to local OEMs.Samsung ha

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

Samsung Electronics has launched a new projector for home cinema called The Premiere, on Wednesday.The high tier version has triple laser technology where different lasers are used for the colors red, green and blue.The budget model has a single laser.The high tier version can project up to a 130 in

LG Electronics said on Wednesday its 8K OLED TV has been recognized as the best TV to realize Nvidia’s GeForce RTX Series GPU.The US chip giant demonstrated its new GPU series on LG’s 88-inch 8K OLED model on Tuesday.LG’s Signature OLED 8K has over 33 million pixels and supports 60Hz refresh rate at

KEC has clinched a supply deal with Tesla to provide them with LV MOSFET TVS used in digital cockpits, the company said on Tuesday.Supply for the chips will begin in 2021.They will be used for over-voltage protection and over-current protection on touch screen liquid crystal display (LCD) panels on

South Korean telco LG Uplus will export its augmented reality (AR) education content to its Japanese counterpart KDDI, the telco said.KDDI will call the service Magic Library, which will launch next month in Japan.LG Uplus said the service has over 230 English children’s book from publishers such as

Hansol Technics is expected to begin contract producing TVs for Samsung Electronics.The company saw sales from Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) module, or LCM, increase substantially in the second quarter.The company said it posted 27.8 billion won in sales from electronics component businesses during t

Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday that its smart TV has received the Tried and Tested Accreditation from the UK’s Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).The South Korean tech giant has been collaborating with the RNIB since 2013 to increase accessibility of TVs for those who are visuall

Samsung Electronics said it expects to ship over 100,000 units in total by August for TVs that have screen sizes of 75-inch or larger, the company said on Tuesday.The company launched a new commercial for its QLED 8K TV model.Samsung showed off how a big screen can be best when viewing movies in the

LG Display said on Tuesday its organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel for TVs have received Intertek’s Accurate Picture Quality certification.The UK-based quality assessment company measured the delta zero color fidelity, black luminance and viewing angle colorshift of the OLED panel.LG scored 0.

The shipment of OLED panels for smartphone nosedived in the second quarter of 2020 to 87 million units, UBI Research said on Monday.It is a fall of 23.1% from the same time period a year ago and a drop of 17% from the first quarter of 2020.The shipment decline came from low shipment of rigid OLED pa

Optical film company Shinwha Intertek is entering the encapsulant market for large-sized organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels, the company told TheElec on Tuesday.It has already provided samples for multiple display panel makers, including LG Display, a company spokesperson said. Shinwha was e

South Korean camera lens maker will expand its factory in Vietnam, the company said on Tuesday.It will secure 18 billion won for the expansion through paid-in capital increase, it said in its filing to local regulators.The new shares will be listed on November 3.The company’s Vietnam factory was run

Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics has won awards for the energy efficiencies in their TVs from an award event hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the ministry said on Monday.The event, called Energy Winner Awards, was co-hosted by Consumers Korea, a local consumer protection N

Wooree E&L has seen volume increase in its shipment of LED modules to LG Display thanks to LG InnoTek exiting the business.LG InnoTek has stopped its production of backlight unit (BLU) LED modules for IT devices and TV in the first half of the year. It still produces LED modules for automobiles, how

Seoul Semiconductor has significantly increased the LED it supplies to LG Electronics for the latter’s LCD TVs, TheElec has learned.It is due to LG InnoTek halting LED module production for backlight units (BLU) used in LCD TVs. South Korean LED maker Ledaz has also entered LG Electronics’ supply ch

LG Electronics will run a reward program for customers returning their old TVs before buying a new OLED TV, the company said on Tuesday.Customers can turn in their old LED and LCD TVs. They will get up to 2 million won worth of benefits for any new OLED TV they buy except those on display on stores