Samsung Display will be shuttering its LCD business for good before the year is out, according to industry sources on April 1.Some of the lines, such as the Gen-7 here in Korea will be refurbished to produce OLED and QD panels. Since 2019, the display maker has been switching its LCD L8 line in Sout

On Mar. 20, 2020 LG Display’s new CEO Chung Ho-young said through a letter to shareholders that the display maker will continue to face the challenges to strengthen its core competitive edge centering on OLED panels.He also touched upon the impact of the COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, fore

LG Display is struggling with low yield of rollable OLED panels for televisions due to using glass substrates.Industry sources on Mar. 11 said LG Display seems to be using ultra-thin glass substrates with a thickness of under 0.2mm for the rollable panels. Due to this material, not only has the yiel

Global TV makers are affected to experience disruptions to their production up until May this year on account of the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, according to industry sources on Mar. 6.During the months of February and March, manufacturers are estimated to have suffered production losses of

The world’s largest electronics company Samsung Electronics has diversified its Micro-LED supply chain to include Taiwan’s Epistar Corp., according to industry sources on Mar. 3.The move appears to be aimed at upholding Samsung’s pledge to launch Micro-LED TVs in the latter half of this year, the so

Samsung Electronics is planning to ship up to 8 million QLED TVs this year, up nearly 50% from last year’s 5.3 million in a bid to widen its gap with key rival LG Electronics in the high-end TV market, according to industry sources on Feb. 27.Samsung’s market share in the global QLED market was arou

China’s largest display maker BOE trumped LG Display in 2019 to top the markets in terms of TV LCD panel area shipment, according to IHS Markit on Feb. 13.BOE has been the largest company to ship LCD panels for TVs since 2018, but this marks the first time it took the lead for area shipments, accord

LG Chem will be shuttering its LCD glass substrate business before the year is out, according to the company on Feb. 3.“Based on calculations that the business would be difficult to turn around, we have reached the decision to shut down,” the company said in a regulatory filing. The division has so

South Korean display maker LG Display is expected to begin mass productions at its Guangzhou plant in China producing large-sized OLED panels immediately after the lunar New Year’s holiday ending on Jan. 28, according to industry watchers on Jan. 16.This follows on the heels of events held in China

LG Display CEO Jung Ho-young said at a press conference just ahead of the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show 2020 in Las Vegas on Jan. 6 that the company will shutter its domestic operations for producing LCD panels for TVs by the end of this year.“The costs are too high to stay ahead of our C

Samsung Electronics will be introducing its premium, bezel-less TV at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2020, according to sources on Dec. 27.During an internal meeting ahead of the launch, CE chief Kim Hyun-seok XX and other executives gave the product a two-thumbs up, the sources sai

The world’s top four LCD suppliers for TVs will be mostly from in 2020, while the total shipment from global LCD companies is likely to fall by 8.2% to 265 million units, according to market research firm IHS Markit on Dec. 18.IHS Markit said this would mark the first time in 10 years to witness a d

Samsung Display is reportedly in last-minute talks with Chinese display maker HKC to sell its Gen-8 LCD production line, according to industry sources on Dec. 5.Called the 8-1 Line Phase 1 or the 8A line, its operations were halted in the middle of this year. Previously, it used to churn out a month

LG Display won’t be able to mass produce OLED panels for TVs from its Gen-8.5 plant in Guangzhou of China until January next year, according to industry sources on Dec. 6.”A trial ahead of the mass production has begun,” said an official of a company that supplied equipment to the OLED production li

Samsung Display is most likely to be supplied by either ICD or Wonik IPS from South Korea, or Japan’s Tokyo Electron with Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) dry etching equipment for its Q1 lines that are to produce QD displays beginning in 2021, according to industry sources.ICD has previously suppli

LG Display plans to nearly halve the production of its LCD panels for TVs in 2020 to switch to OLED panels in the face of falling LCD prices, according to industry source on Nov. 27.At the same time, the sales of OLED panels for TVs are expected to take up 60% of its total TV panel sales. This year,

LG Electronics sent 100 employees from home in South Korea, along with interpreters, to its smartphone factory in Vietnam to kickstart operations as soon as the local staff receives sufficient training, industry sources said on Nov. 18.It would take around 6 months for the employees to be sent into

South Korea’s ITM Semiconductor has exclusively supplied battery Protection Circuit Module Packages (PMPs) for Apple’s Airpod Pro earphones, according to industry sources.This marks the first time that the manufacturer was confirmed to have supplied to the US-based tech company. Industry watchers be

South Korean supplier Avaco is making bigger foray into China by signing a deal to provide equipment to Chinese display maker HKC, with which it first began to do business just this year, the company said in a disclosure on Nov. 7.The deal is worth 16 billion won, and it’s with one of HKC’s local co

South Korea's LG Electronics said on Nov. 5 that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Chinese TV maker Hisense at a court in California, US.“We decided to go ahead with the lawsuit after Hisense ignored both our warnings and requests to stop the violation and come to the table,” said a