Semes’ talks to sell its display equipment business unit to Wonik IPS for 82 billion won has failed.Wonik IPS said on Friday that the pair’s contract for the deal signed on August 31 has been canceled and they were no longer in talks.The company said Semes, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, calle

Samsung Display was reviewing potential investments to expand its production of organic light emitting diode (OLED) for notebooks, according to UBI ResearchSpeaking at an online conference on Thursday, UBI Research CEO Choong Hoon Yi also said Samsung Electronics will unlikely to use Samsung Display

Display panel manufacturers TCL and Innolux have said they are expecting supply of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels to be tight throughout the year.TCL chairman Li Dongsheng said at a media briefing last week that the shortage in panels will continue in the first half of 2021. The situation for t

Interests for virtual reality, augmented reality and extended reality __ which combines the two, know as XR __ remain strong.However, what direction XR will develop technologically remain uncertain. And despite some industrial applications, a mass market XR consumer devices seem far away from realit

AP Systems have won orders for display production equipment from Chinese display maker Tianma for the latter’s flexible OLED factory.The company was among 21 South Korean companies that won a total of 44 ordres for equipment for use by the Chinese company for its Gen 6 OLED factory at Xiamen, data f

Earnings of South Korean display equipment manufacturer Leading Edge Technology (LET) in 2021 will rely on how much foldable smartphones Samsung can ship.LET is Samsung Display’s exclusive supplier of laminator, used to stack ultra-thin glasses that act as cover windows on the foldable panels.The co

APS Materials and Poongwon Precision has been chosen to lead a government-backed project to develop fine metal mask (FMM).The companies beat Philoptics and Olum Materials to be chosen to lead the project given by South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. APS will lead the development of

Samsung Display was currently developing in-folding foldable OLED panels to supply to Oppo, Xiaomi and Google, TheElec has learned.Smartphones using these panels will launch within the year.The panel for Oppo folds from top to bottom __ it is an in-folding clamshell type. It is sized 7.7-inch unfold

3D cover glass manufacturer JNTC will begin production of cover glass for wearable in the first half of 2021, TheElec has learned.It will be the company’s first mass production of cover glass for wearable devices.JNTC’s third factory in Vietnam for the glasses is expected to be completed in April, w

BOE is planning to commercially launch a MicroOLED display in the second half of 2021, TheElec has learned.The panel will be applied to products that support augmented reality and virtual reality viewing.BOE had been developing MicroOLED since 2018 through Kunming BOE Display Technology, its joint v

Prices of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels will remain high up to the second quarter of 2021 due to the recent fire yet AGC’s glass substrate manufacturing plant in South Korea, market research firms say.Prior to the fire, research firms pointed that price increases of LCD will make a downturn in

Display equipment maker Meere Company will supply its edge grinder for Tianma’s Gen 6 OLED production line.According to chinabidding.com, the Korean company won an order for edge griners and edge inspection equipment from the Chinese display giant last week.Edge grinder uses a grinding wheel to make

Corning said it was expanding production at its Gen 10.5 (2,940x3,370) liquid crystal display (LCD) glass substrate factories in China.The company said demand from TV and IT products continues to be solid, with demand increases for large-sized TV remaining robust. Demand for 75-inch TV grew over 60%

China’s Everdisplay Optronics listed on Shanghai Stack Exchange Star Market on Monday, but the company will need to overcome its profitability problem.Everdisplay manufacturers small rigid and flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels. Its current mainstay is rigid OLED. The firm was the f

Samsung Display is planning to build a new production line for notebook OLED at its A4 factory in Asan, TheElec has learned.The line will have a production capacity of 30,000 substrates per month and will produce mid-sized OLED panels in the 18 to 20-inch range aimed at notebooks.The plan is being c

South Korean start-up Vtouch is aiming to commercialize digital signage this year, company co-CEO Kim Seok-joong says.Vtouch is a developer of virtual touch technology. The technology uses the camera on displays to recognize the eyes and hand tips of users. The used the idea that the hand pointing a

Samsung Display said on Tuesday that it has supplied organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels that consumes 16% less power than predecessors for Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S21 Ultra smartphone.The display panel company said it has applied new organic material with improve luminous efficiency.The

Automotive display shipment jumped 22% in 2020 from a year prior, market research firm Omdia said on Friday.The firm said it expects 351 million units of automotive display 9-inch or larger were shipped.Demand contracted in the first half of the year due to the pandemic but recovered in the second h

Employees of Toptec were found not guilty by a court on allegations that they have leaked technology of Samsung Display to China.The Suwon District Court found all 11 employees, including company CEO Bang In-bok, to be not guilty.They were indicted in 2018 by prosecutors for allegedly leaking techno

Samsung Display on Tuesday has filed a second patent lawsuit against JOLED in the US, claiming the latter violated its patents.Intellectual Keystone Technology (IKT), a US subsidiary of Samsung Display, filed the suit to the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, against JOLED and Asus