Samsung Electronics’ production plan for MicroLED TV is being delayed, raising the question of whether the South Korean conglomerate will launch them at all within the year, people familiar with the matter told TheElec Wednesday.The company initially planned to wrap up the production of the necessar

LG Electronics has marked 493.1 billion won in operating profits in the second quarter, better than market expectations and mostly thanks to its home appliance business.The company said its revenue for the quarter was 12.8 trillion won. It is a drop of 17.9% in revenue and 24.4% in operating profits

LG Display’s organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel for TV has received the Flicker Free Award from TUV Rheinland, the South Korean company said.This means LG’s OLED panels from 44 to 88 inches has all received the certificate from both the German standard firm as well as US counterpart Underwrit

LG Electronics has launched the LG Nanocell AI ThinQ TV, model name NANO87, in South Korea, the company said.The TV received level 1 in energy efficiency, which makes it eligible of up to 10% rebate of the purchasing price capped at 300,000 won from the Korea Energy Agency. It is the company’s secon

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 Electronics has displayed its Lifestyle TV models __ The Sero and The Serif __ at popular beauty stores in South Korea, it said on Wednesday.The TVs will be on display at Sulwhasoo Flagship Store and Amore Seongsu.The Sero is a TV that is long vertically and shaped like a smartphone screen.

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

Samsung Electronics will offer up to a million won in benefits for those returning their TVs to buy the 2020-model QLED TVs in South Korea, the company said on Tuesday.The program will run from July to September 30, the South Korean tech giant said. Those who return their old TVs and buy a 2020-mode

Samsung Electronics has launched its QLED TV that received the top grade in energy efficiency in South Korea on Sunday.It marks the first for its QLED brand of TVs to receive the top certificate. The company’s Crystal UHD TV also received the top grade.The new QLED TV, or QT67, comes in 43, 50, 55,

A researcher at LG Display that led the company’s development of a rollable organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel have won the top prize in an event hosted by the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the company said on Wednesday.Kim In-joo of LG Display won the King of Inventions award i

UBI Research will hold a day-long seminar in organic light emitting diode (OLED) and quantum dot nanorod LED (QNED) next month, the research firm said on Friday.It will be held at COEX, Seoul on July 16. It will be available online as well, UBI Research said.Analysts at UBI Research will present the

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

CrucialTec will supply its fingerprint scanner module for Sony’s Xperia 1 II 5G smartphone, the company said on Wednesday.Xperia 1 II is the first 5G smartphone to go on sale in Japan. Sony said it applied its Bravia TV display technology and Alpha camera technology to the phone.CrucialTec’s module

LG Electronics expects demand for TVs to rebound in the second half of the year, the company said on Monday, and will display some of its key products at key shops globally to meet them.The South Korean hardware maker said it was expanding displaying of its wallpaper-concept LG OLED Galleria TV, or

Hisense will launch the UEFA.tv app on their TVs, the companies announced Thursday.The UEFA sponsor said its smart TVs running on the Linux-based VIDAA operating system and Hisense-made Toshiba TV have the app. It is available in Europe as of Thursday. Other regions will also get app in the months t

Partron was developing a 5G embedded telecommunication module using Qualcomm’s modem chip, the company said.It was using the US chip giant’s Snapdragon X55 5G Modem-RF System. Partron will develop two modules, one for sub-6GHz spectrum and another for ultra-high spectrum.They will be made in land gr

Samsung and LG have withdrawn their complaints filed to the South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) as of Friday, which stemmed from their squabbles over their respective TV advertisements last year.The FTC said it will no longer proceed with the case as both parties have withdrawn. LG withdrew on

South Korean display equipment vendor Leading Edge Technology (LET) is gearing up to go public.LET CEO Lee Hong-geun said the company will become an equipment vendor that handle front- to back-end display production, at its KOSDAQ IPO conference at Yeouido, on Thursday.LET was formed in 2001 by ex-L

Worldwide TV market will contract 9% this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) said Thursday.Total shipment in 2020 will be 233 million units, down 9.2% from 2019, the research firm said.LCD TV will drop 9.6% from a year ago to 229.4 million units, while OLED TV

Samsung Electronics has started a public competition for consumers to make their own artworks using the company’s eco-package for TVs, the company said Thursday.Consumers can turn in pictures of what they made using the packages for the contest, called Eco Pet House Challenge, by June 30. They can a