Global corporate investment into LCD displays is expected to become obscure beginning in 2022, triggering forecasts that suppliers producing LCD-related equipment will quickly have to switch their main area of business.According to market research firm IHS Markit, the final investment into the secto

LG Display’s LCD factory in Gumi of North Gyeongsang Province tasked with supplying Apple’s iPhones are showing higher operation ratios than expected after a recent disruption in Apple’s Japanese supplier JDI’s production lines.LG Display mass produces LCDs for Apple’s iPhones from its AP3 Gen-6 LTP

Several potential South Korea clients have been testing the quality of DuPont’s quality of liquid PI for substrates, according to industry sources on Nov. 18.“Frequent testing has been done at a number of companies, but a final decision doesn’t seem to have been reached yet,” said one industry watch

South Korean supplier Kolon Industries expects another boost to its revenues as China’s Huawei Technologies has applied a double-layer of its Colorless Polyimide (CPI) film to the display cover of the Mate X for stronger durability.Industry sources told The Elec on Nov. 20 that Huawei has applied a

Samsung Display appears to have resumed construction of its A5 plant in Asan of South Chungcheong Province, marking a year since the construction was halted due to slow demand.As evidence, industry sources said on Nov. 13 that a cargo crane entered the grounds of the second industrial cluster in Asa

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

The shipment of OLED panels surpassed that of LTPS LCDs for the first time for smartphone displays in the third quarter of this year, according to market research firm IHS Markit this month.In total, 147 million OLED panels were shipped. The volume for LTPS LCDs were just over 100 million. Samsung D

South Korea’s Samsung Display is out to build an ecosystem in Taiwan, the home of IT industries, to expand the market for laptop OLED panels, the company said at the Samsung OLED forum in Taiwan on Nov. 7.“Samsung Display’s OLED boasts qualities such as 압도적인 picture quality and high energy efficienc

LG affiliate Silicon Works is upping the portion of China in its portfolio in a bid to survive amid hardcore restructuring at LG Display’s LCD business, according to industry sources on Oct. 6.Silicon Works’ primary cash cow so far has been selling display driver ICs (DDI) for large-sized LCD panels

The Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) is actively discussing with suppliers on taking a collective stand against Foxconn’s delay in payment for the equipment at its Gen-10.5 LCD production lines in Guangzhou, according to industry sources on Nov. 6.“Unlike with Chinese display industry playe

The general manager of BOE’s innovative application division said on Oct. 30 that the Chinese display maker is searching for Korean partners for creating next-generation micro OLED-panel-based products.The Chinese executive was speaking at the Tech Inside Show – a high-tech materials and technology

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