Samsung Display has succeeded in developing and mass-producing OLED panels applied with the LTPO TFT technology, according to industry sources on Oct. 24. The panels have been installed in Samsung Electronics’ smart watch, the Galaxy Watch Active 2.LTPO is a low-energy OLED display technology that w

South Korean equipment maker Top Engineering said on Oct. 24 that it has signed a 5.3 billion-won deal with China’s Henan China Top Opto to supply it with LCD equipment. This marks the first time for Top Engineering to partner with the Chinese firm.The equipment supplied by the Korean supplier are L

LG Display is looking to supply LCD panels for next-generation budget iPhones from Apple scheduled to be released early next year. Industry sources said on Oct. 21 that the panels are undergoing last-minute quality checks.The new phones are the successor to the iPhone SE released in 2016 and discont

Struggling display maker LG Display has sent home up to 20 executives – or around 17% of its executive work force – in its latest restructuring aimed to streamline its organization as it looks to move from LCDs to OLEDs in earnest.The executives who were let go included the chief of the Guangzhou-ba

Samsung Electronics will most likely be launching a smartphone with no camera holes on the display in 2020, according to industry sources on Oct. 16.The display for this model will be the OLED panels from Samsung Display using the Under Display Camera technology. The UDC equipment is called the HIAA

Samsung Display signed MOUs with 9 equipment makers, 5 suppliers and 6 material manufacturers to join forces to create next generation displays, sources close to the matter told The Elec on Oct. 13.A few days earlier on Oct. 10, the Korean display maker held a ceremony announcing its plans to invest

Korea's Samsung Display will invest up to 13.1 trillion won to set up mass production lines and technology development for large-sized QD displays by 2025, the company said on Oct. 10.The display maker made the announcement at its Asan 2 Campus, where President Moon Jae-in and Samsung Electronics Vi

Struggling South Korean display maker LG Display underwent some heavy-duty reorganization on Oct. 4 involving moves to let go of one-fourth of the executive staff as a part of its plans to minimize the LCD business in favor of the OLED panel division.There are currently 118 executives on the LG Disp

“The semiconductor and display industries have achieved nearly 100% of automation in terms of process, and about 50% in terms of analysis,” said Samsung Display’s senior vice president Lee Jae-sun on Sept. 27, about a week ahead of the Oct. 8 Manufacturing Tech Conference to be co-hosted by The Elec

Samsung Display is planning to shut down additional production lines for LCDs to the middle of next year, according to industry sources on Sept. 26.The phase 2 line at its 8-1 Asan 1 Campus in South Chungcheong Province will most likely be the target, they said. The company has already halted the ph

Samsung Display is expected to announce its plans to shift its LCD production lines to those for large-sized OLED displays in October involving 10 trillion won or more investment, according to industry sources on Sept. 24.The company is likely to place orders for related equipment after the announce

Top South Korean manufacturers of semiconductor and display equipment were found to be spending much less on R&D compared to their foreign counterparts, according to data compiled by The Elec on Sept. 19.The financial statements of the nation’s top 15 equipment makers for the first half of this year

LG Display has laid out plans to streamline operations by receiving voluntary retirement for three weeks starting from Sept. 23. The announcement came a day the display maker named its new CEO, Chung Ho-young.The company also said it would be trimming down the organization in general to undergo a fa

South Korean display maker LG Display was chosen to supply flexible OLED panels for the flagship smartphone Mate 30 series produced by China’s Huawei Technologies, sources told The Elec on Sept. 14.The reports come following previous news predicting that Samsung Display would be supplying the Mate 3

Samsung Electronics has raised its TV shipment target this year to 43 million this year, according to market research firm IHS Markit. The figure is bigger than the estimated shipment of 41.4 million for last year. Originally, Samsung had said it would ship up to 43 million.In October, Samsung shipp

Samsung will keep the Fingerprint on Display (FOD) sensor for its next Galaxy S smartphone, according to industry sources on Sept. 10. For better performance, the Active Area Dimension (AAD) that recognizes the fingerprints is expected to be get much bigger.“We are talking with clients including Sam

Samsung Display has decided against developing OLED material sets exclusively for Apple smartphones, meaning next year’s iPhones would likely use the M10 sets, according to industry sources on Sept. 10.“The biggest reason for not developing exclusive sets anymore is due to the slow sales of the iPho

South Korean chemicals and materials company LC Chem has signed a partnership with US-based OLED materials maker UDC on co-developing next generation OLED light-emitting layer, according to industry sources on Sept. 4.UDC recently also signed partnerships with Germany-based display technology compan

South Korean manufacturer Wonik IPS has supplied Hole in Active Area (HIAA) equipment to Samsung Display last month in a move aimed at cutting production prices, sources recently told The Elec.The new equipment will be applied for the mass production of displays from Samsung using the HIAA technolog

Germany-based pharmaceutical company Merck said it would join hands with South Korea to overcome the sluggish growth of the local and global display industry at a recent academic convention held in Gyeongju on Aug. 29.Merck Managing Director Glenn Young said during its 30 years in South Korea, Merck