LG Display is planning to develop hybrid OLED panel to supply to automobile customers, TheElec has learned.Hybrid OLED panels uses glass substrates and thin-film encapsulation (TFE), technologies that were used mutually exclusively for rigid OLED panels and flexible OLED panels, respectively, in the

Inkjet printing solution firm Enjet’s earnings this year will again be determined by Samsung and Samsung Display.Enjet, which listed on Kosdaq last year, is aiming for an annual revenue of 44.8 billion won and an operating profit of 18.2 billion won, sources said.These goals are higher by 2 times an

Japanese tech giant Sony, which is supplying the panel used by Apple for its new mixed reality device Vision Pro, has a capacity of 900,000 units of these panels per year, TheElec has learned.Sony manufactures the OLED on silicon, or OLEDoS, which uses silicon as a substrate to make a high-resolutio

Display equipment maker Charm Engineering has won its patent lawsuit against Enjet after three years of legal back and forths.Earlier this month, the Supreme Court denied the two appeals made by Enjet against Charm Engineering.Enjet had filed appeals against two Patent Court decisions that invalidat

Samsung Display has started placing orders for equipment it wants to install on its first Gen 8 OLED production line.This was confirmed by its equipment suppliers Philoptics, FNS Tech, KCTech and HIMS.Philoptics said it signed a deal worth 63 billion won; FNS Tech 36 billion won; KCTech 35.7 billion

Samsung Display is planning to apply its hybrid OLED technology in automotive display panels, TheElec has learned.The South Korean display panel so far only supplied rigid OLED panels for its automobile customers.The hybrid OLED panel is a step up from rigid OLED panels in that while it uses glass s

OLED firm eMagin said on Wednesday that it will merge with Samsung Display for US$218 million.Samsung Display will acquire eMagin’s stock for US$2.08 per share, which reflects a 10% premium to eMagin’s closing share price on Tuesday of US$1.89.The South Korean display panel maker will secure RGB OLE

Hanwha Solution is planning to complete the construction of its OLED fine metal mask (FMM) factory being built at Asan within the year.However, the company is yet to secure a customer, sources said.FMM is used to form the red, green and blue subpixels of an OLED panel. Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing is

BOE chairman Chen Yanshun didn’t make a visit to Samsung, a key customer of the Chinese display panel maker, during his visit to South Korea in April, TheElec has learned.It is extremely rare for a high-level company executive of a component maker to not make a visit to a customer during a foreign t

A cloud hangs over the profitability of Gen 8 OLED. This is because Apple’s revenues from MacBooks are dropping, a key product that would use the OLED panels made by display panel maker’s Gen 8 OLED production lines.The iPhone maker’s revenue from MacBooks was US$7.168 billion during its fiscal seco

Those in the South Korean display equipment industry told TheElec that they are skeptical of Chinese display panel maker HKC’s plan to invest in OLED display panels.Senior executives of HKC has been paying visits to South Korea for months recently and offering to order equipment to domestic equipmen

Shipment of OLED panels for IT products such as notebooks and tablets is expected to double next year thanks to Apple launching related products, according to analyst firm Omdia.Last year, 470 million units of display panels for IT products were shipped; out of these, only 9.1 million units, or 2%,

Apple has recently approved the use of a Gen 8 OLED deposition machine developed by Sunic System, TheElec has learned.The iPhone maker had previously wanted the South Korean display panel makers to use a machine developed by Japan’s Canon Tokki.Sources said however Apple’s approval wasn’t an active

LG Display has begun developing a new etching technology for OLED panels that will be supplied to Apple, TheElec has learned.The technology is being prepared by the company to launch a so-called hybrid OLED panel, which uses a glass substrate like a rigid OLED panel but uses thin-film encapsulation

Samsung Electronics and LG Display have resumed their negotiations for a possible white OLED (W-OLED) supply deal, TheElec has learned.The pair are discussing LG Display potentially supplying somewhere between 200,000 to 300,000 units of W-OLED panels as the initial stock, sources said.If LG Display

Chinese display panel makers monopolizing the liquid crystal display (LCD) market will in the long run threaten the TV businesses of Samsung and LG, according to UBI Research CEO Choong Hoon Yi.Yi told TheElec in an interview on Tuesday that while many see the dominance of Chinese companies in the L

Samsung Display is almost certainly expected to use its M12 material set for OLED panels that it will supply to Apple for iPhone 15 series this year, sources told TheElec.The South Korean display panel maker used the material set for the first time last year for the two top-tier models of the iPhone

Samsung Display will start manufacturing OLED panels for the iPhone 15 Series in May, a month earlier than initially planned, TheElec has learned.This is because BOE, which was given the order by Apple to manufacture some OLED panels for the standard model of iPhone 15, is facing problems in product

LG Display is expected to supply a 30-inch range OLED panel to electric car maker Lucid, TheElec has learned.The supply timeline has been delayed due to Lucid’s financial difficulty but LG Display is expected to start producing the panels in the fourth quarter, sources said.The OLED panel Lucid plan

Samsung Display was considering collaborating with APS holdings for the development of a 3500ppi fine metal mask (FMM), TheElec has learned.The masks are used to manufacture OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) that can be used in virtual and augmented reality devices.APS Holdings had last year unveiled an OLED