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

Batteries, biopharmaceuticals, and chips. These three products are largely considered to be Samsung’s three growth engines today by observers of the South Korean conglomerate.Samsung SDI is the subsidiary that handles batteries.But in contrast to the other two products, Samsung SDI’s investment in t

Samsung Electronics is planning to manufacture 290.68 million units of smartphones in 2023, TheElec has learned.This is 13% of the production target of 334.2 million units it had set near the end of 2021 for this year.Manufacturers always set a production target around 10% higher than their shipment

Samsung has been sued by a former employee last month in the US over alleged patent infringement, TheElec has learned.Former employee Kim Seung-man alleges in his suit filed in the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Samsung and Samsung Electronics America that the companies inf

Hanwha Corporation has hired a former executive at Samsung SDI who worked on battery equipment, TheElec has learned.STM vice president Ryu Yang-sik recently quit the company to join Hanwha Momentum, Hanwha’s business unit that manufactures battery equipment.He will head the battery business of the u

LG Display is set an OLED panel shipment target for 2023 that is higher than its expected shipment this year, TheElec has learned.The company is expected to ship less of the panels than it aimed for this year due to demand for TVs falling, in general, this year from inflation.LG Display is planning

Samsung Display had transferred its patents in the US related to liquid crystal display (LCD) to CSOT back in June, TheElec has learned.It also transferred its patents in South Korea to the Chinese company last month, sources said.A total of 577 patents in the US were given to CSOT, which bought Sam

Samsung Display was considering both ultra-thin glass (UTG) and transparent polyimide (PI) film to use as cover windows for foldable OLED panels aimed at tablets and notebooks, TheElec has learned.The company currently uses UTG for foldable OLED panels it manufactures for smartphones such as the Gal

Samsung Display is planning to expand the production capacity of quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels by 30% before the year’s end, TheElec has learned.The company plans to achieve this by reducing the takt time __ the time it takes to manufacture a product __ without additional spending on equipment, sourc

TCL chairman and CEO Li Dongsheng will visit Samsung Electronics during his trip to South Korea later this month where he will also visit South Korean display equipment makers, TheElec has learned.Li is expected to secure from Samsung purchase orders for display panels for CSOT, TCL’s display panel-

Samsung Electronics was selling its key QD (quantum dot)-OLED TV model at a price point US$200 lower than its main competition W (white)-OLED TV made by rival LG Elecronics, analyst firm UBI Research says.Samsung’s 65-inch QD-OLED TV model, S95B, was being sold for US$2,800 on BestBuy, compared to L

Samsung Display had received requests from its customers to develop a MicroOLED panel, something which it had been avoiding so far due to expected low profitability, TheElec has learned.These customers include Samsung Electronics, its parent company, and another of its main customer Apple as well as

Hanwha Momentum, the battery equipment business unit of Hanwha Corporation, was actively hiring staff, including those from Samsung and LG, to bolster its battery equipment operation, TheElec has learned.The business unit had recently hired Kwon Ki-suk, whose previous position was an executive advis

HB Solution had secured patents owned by US inkjet equipment firm Kateeva as collateral in case it doesn’t get repaid its investment, TheElec has learned.HB Solution, which had invested around 16 billion won in Kateeva that is giving it technological support, had said back in March that it will buy

Samsung Display and Japan’s Ulvac will start price negotiation for the Gen 8.5 OLED deposition equipment that the latter will be supplying, TheElec has learned.The pair had been working to develop a deposition machine for Gen 8.5 (2200x2500mm) substrate that uses full-cut substrates and deposits org

Samsung Display has acquired patents from German firm Cynora related to high-efficiency blue OLED, TheElec has learned.Multiple companies are currently working to develop blue OLED with high efficiency.Cynora is among them and it has been developing thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) bl

Samsung SDI was preparing a pilot line at its Cheonan plant in South Korea to test batteries it will be supplying to Tesla, TheElec has learned.The batteries are 4680 cylinder batteries (46mm diameter, 80mm length) and the South Korean battery firm will verify the technology within the year, sources

DI had acquired image processing inspection equipment firm Protech Corporation in March this year, TheElec has learned.The purchase follows the one it made in November when it bought machine vision battery inspection equipment maker Vtensystem for 6 billion won.Protech was founded in 2000 and develo

Samsung Display is likely to build its first Gen 8.5 OLED line with a capacity of 15,000 substrates per month, TheElec has learned.Gen 8.5 (2200x2500mm) substrates are larger than the Gen 6 (1500x1850mm) used widely for smartphones.This means it is more efficient and productive for making larger OLE

Samsung Electronics was repositioning hundreds of employees at Samsung Display to its chip packaging business unit, TheElec has learned.The company is taking applications from employees at its display business unit for the transfer, people with direct knowledge of the matter said.Those 37-years-old