Pressed to develop large-sized OLED panels for TVs, Samsung Display has made an unprecedented move to partner with a key supplier for its crosstown rival LG Display.Industry sources told The Elec on June 20 that the Samsung unit is in talks with Yas for a technological partnership."We are in practic

LG Display’s second quarter operating losses are expected to deepen from the first quarter after failing to close a deal for supplying OLED panels to Huawei’s P30 Pro smartphones, according to financial sector sources on June 18.LG will have to shoulder most of the costs involved, they forecast, sin

Samsung Display Vice President Kim Seong-cheol said on June 18 that the firm is “on standby” to roll out panels for the upcoming launch of the delayed Galaxy Fold.At the Korean Information Display Society forum held in Seoul, he also said that the phone now appears ready to hit the market.Samsung’s

Leading South Korean battery maker Samsung SDI will more widely apply high-powered cathodes based on nickel-cobalt-aluminum materials to its cylindrical flat top batteries to carve out a larger slice of the electric vehicle market.Industry sources said on June 17 that the Samsung unit will proactive

Point Engineering, a leading South Korean maker of displays and semiconductor parts and materials, is poised to sign deals with global chip equipment makers next year, according to company officials.With the move, the company hopes to diversify its portfolio that’s currently geared towards displays.

South Korean manufacturer Innox Advanced Materials (IAM) will begin to supply the back plate film for Samsung Display’s flexible OLED panels, according to industry sources on June 14.Back plate film is an adhesive attached to the rear surface of a flexible display to serve as a reinforcement plate.

Suppliers for foldable phones are suffering on the delayed launch of the next generation handsets that had promised hefty profit margins, industry sources said on June 11.To name just a few, Kolon Industries, Innox Advanced Materials, BH Co. and KHVATEC are all on the edge of their seats, waiting fo

Samsung Electronics will apply Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology for the first time for DRAM mass production in the memory chip sector to raise efficiency and cut costs, sources close to the matter told The Elec.Samsung – the world’s largest memory chipmaker – is scheduled to begin ma

South Korea’s Samsung SDI has added Chinese electric carmaker Xiaopeng to its list of customers for flat top batteries, according to government and industry sources on June 12.China’s Ministry of Industry & Information Technology and market research firm First Electric Network said that Samsung SDI

LG Display has brought in TFT deposition equipment earlier than expected for 10.5th generation OLED lines at its P10 plant in Paju of Gyeonggi Province to help prep for mass production, sources close to the matter said on June 12.The equipment is mainly manufactured by US-based Applied Materials, wi

Huawei Technologies’ attempts to float its own smartphone Operating System will face significant hurdles, according to industry sources cited by the global media.It’s not because the system itself is difficult to create, but because the Chinese company would face various challenges in creating a who

Samsung Display, the world’s largest OLED producer, is finding it difficult to develop large-sized OLED panels for next generation TVs, sources said on June 10."Samsung is apparently struggling with the product concept, and the designs for the materials deposition equipment is now undergoing change,

China’s ATL (Ameperx Technology Limited) has kicked off mass production of batteries for the successor to Apple’s iPhone XR forecast to be unveiled later this year, according to those close to the matter on June 9. Battery packaging will be done by another Chinese firm, Huapu Technology.The new batt

Qualcomm, the world’s largest maker of application processors (AP) for smartphones, has once again turned to Samsung to produce its next generation chips, industry sources said on June 7.Samsung Foundry will begin mass producing the chips – dubbed the Snapdragon 865 – by the end of the year at its E

South Korea’s LG Display will supply the LCD panels for the Apple Pro Display XDR monitor launched at the annual WWDC 2019 earlier this week, according to sources close to the matter on June 5.The Pro Display XDR is the first monitor brand Apple released since it stopped manufacturing the Thunderbol

LG Chem which once sued SK Innovation in an international patent lawsuit, has filed a lawsuit against a much smaller company in March this year, according to industry sources on June 5.The LG affiliate sued Innox Advanced Materials for infringing on patents involving encapsulation film technology fo

Semiconductor said on June 4 that it has sued European LED distributor Leuchtstark Vertriebs GmbH in a court in Dusseldorf of Germany for patent infringement.According to the South Korean chip maker, Leuchtstark Vertriebs infringed upon two patents concerning its MEGAMAN product. Semiconductor is al

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei visited South Korea last week to meet with parts suppliers to enlist their support, according to sources close to the matter on June 4.“Huawei admitted it may have to cut production, but asked for steady supplies even if that’s the case,” said one of the source

Chinese battery makers are quickly making inroads into South Korea following a string of fires at nationwide energy storage systems (ESS) that the government has yet to offer an explanation for.Industry sources said on June 4 that due to these safety issues, manufactures are turning to ESS facilitie

Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong confirmed on June 1 that Samsung remains committed to the trillions won worth of investment it previously announced.“What drove Samsung’s relentless innovation over the past half century was our commitment to invest in the future even during the toughes