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

BOE is supplying on-cell organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel __ in which the touch sensor is embedded within the panel __ to Huawei for the first time, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Monday.The success in winning the order shows that the Chinese display giant is narrowing its

UBI Research has reduced its forecast for LG Display’s large-sized OLED panel shipment this year by over 25%.The South Korea display maker is expected to ship 3.6 million units this year due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, UBI Research CEO Choong Hoon Yi said at a conference on Thursday. Thi

The Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) will formally complain to the Chinese ambassador of South Korea on Wednesday of Jiangxi Infintech’s delayed payments due to local display equipment makers, TheElec learned on Tuesday.They have invited ambassador Xing Haiming for a morning conference wher

Samsung Display’s flexible OLED shipment to China will triple this year compared to last year, UBI Research said on Tuesday.The South Korean display panel maker will ship 47 million units of flexible OLED panel to China this year __ in 2019 it shipped 15.5 million units.Thanks to this high demand fr

Color filters will replace polarizers in foldable organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels in the future, a South Korean research firm said on Friday.Major panel companies were working on such technology as color filters will allow the panels to become thinner and more brighter, UBI Research said.

Quantum dot (QD)-based organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels will remain under 10% of the total large-sized OLED panel shipments up to 2024, a South Korean research firm said on Thursday.Earlier this month, Samsung Display announced that it has put in equipment into its Asan factory for use in

LG Display has delayed the starting of operations at its 10.5th-generation organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel line at Paju indefinitely, sources within the company told TheElec on Tuesday.The company initially planned to begin production sometime between 2022 to 2023 but this has been delayed

Cover windows used in foldable smartphones will use both ultra thin glass (UTG) and colorless polyimide (CPI) films for at least the next five years, market research firm UBI Research said on Monday.Shipment of CPI films and UTG will reach 4.5 million units and 3.5 million units, respectively, this

LG Display is planning to restart operations of its organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel plant in Guangzhou, China this month, people familiar with the matter said.The company has already secured the necessary yield rate for mass production sometime during the second quarter, they said. However

Samsung Display has put in the equipment necessary to produce Quantum Dot (QD) displays at its factory in South Korea.The company held a ceremony on Wednesday commemorating putting the equipment in at its plant in Asan.Last year in October, Samsung Display announced that it was exiting the Liquid Cr

China’s polarizer market will be controlled by local companies that will have a combined market share of 80% next year, market research firm Omdia says.This is mostly from Chinese material firm Shanshan’s planned acquisition of LG Chem’s Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) polarizer business.The deal will

APS Holdings and Philoptics are expected to compete fiercely to stay on a key government-backed fine metal mask (FMM) project.The project run by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, is done to develop FMM sticks that will be applied to future generation OLED production. FMM is used to deposit

Chinese display giant BOE is aiming to win Apple’s order for display panels, for both of its OLED factory lines, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Tuesday.The company operates two OLED lines __ the B11 line and B7 line __ at Sichuan, China. It is planning to use both lines for a potent

LG Display will supply miniLED panels to Apple for the new iPad Pro launching later in the year, sources within the company told TheElec on Monday.It will be the South Korean display panel maker’s first miniLED supply deal to its long-time client Apple.LG Display will supply 12.9-inch miniLED panels

Large-area thin-film transistor (TFT) display market will show marginal growth in 2020 as it begins recovering from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the second quarter, market research firm Omdia said.Global large-area TFT display unit shipments in 2020 are expected to total 771.6 million unit

Samsung Electronics has canceled the development of its low-tier Galaxy M41 smartphone, sources told TheElec on Tuesday.TheElec first reported that Samsung was planning to use CSOT’s OLED panels for the first time in the Galaxy M41.But following the report, sources within the company said Samsung ha