Samsung’s smartphone shipment in the second quarter dropped 25% from the previous quarter.The company shipped a total of 130 million smartphones in the first half of the year, which means it will likely fail to meet its annual shipment target of 300 million for the entire year of 2021.Samsung said i

Samsung Electro-Mechanics has begun operations of its new multi layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) factory in Tianjin, China.The company said during its second quarter conference call that the factory has begun operation at the current time, after completion of construction and trial testing conducted i

LG Display said on Wednesday that it was reviewing the construction of an additional OLED production line for IT and mobile applications.The statement is effectively a confirmation that the company plans to restart spending on the E6-3, which will manufacture OLED panels for Apple.LG Display CFO Suh

Display equipment maker Top Engineering said on Tuesday that it is aiming to secure sales between 20 billion won to 30 billion won in the next year or two from its roll-to-roll equipment business.The company is aiming to reduce its reliance on its main display equipment business.Roll-to-roll equipme

LG InnoTek has sold 1,046 patents in South Korea related to LED technology to Chinese companies Suzhou LEKIN Semiconductor as of Monday, TheElec has confirmed.The South Korean firm had handed over 114 patents to LEKIN on July 2.LG InnoTek has filed for ownership changes of the patents on July 15, 20

Samsung is yet to launch the 99-inch version of its MicroLED TV.This is despite the company saying earlier in the year that it will do so in the first half of the year.Samsung had also said it plans to launch 88-inch and 76-inch versions of MicroLED TV within the year.A Samsung spokesperson said thi

Apple used more OLED panels in its smartphones compared to Samsung in the first half of the year, data from UBI Research showed.It is highly like that Cupertino will overtake its South Korean rival in OLED smartphone shipment this year due to the upcoming launch of iPhone 13.Out of the total smartph

Merck said on Thursday that it will supply the hole transporting layer (HTL) material used in the production of OLED panels to LG Display.The layers will be used in LG Display’s production of smartphone OLED panels, which will be supplied to Apple for the upcoming iPhone 13.OLED panels are comprised

LG Display will restart its spending on an OLED line __ E6-3 __ dedicated to customer Apple next month at the earliest, TheElec has learned.It will be a resumption in three years and eight months. The company had delayed its spending plan on E6-3 back in 2017.LG Display is projected to spend over 1

Samsung on Monday said it has launched the 2021 The Wall display, which uses Micro LED technology.The latest model, model name IWA, has a micro AI processor with 16 neural networks models used to upscale resolution.The new display also uses LED devices that are 40% smaller than their predecessor.Thi

There will likely be a shortage of large-sized OLED panels used in TVs starting in 2024, UBI Research CEO Choong Hoon Yi said.Yi based his forecast on the production capacity for large-sized OLED panels and t here expected demand going forward.Demand for large-sized OLED panels is expected to be aro

Camera lens firm Haesung Optics and camera module inspection equipment maker isMedia will collaborate in developing expanded reality (XR) devices and contents, the pair said on Wednesday.They will also collaborate to make inspection equipment more sophisticated.A Haesung spokesperson said it will us

Isu Petasys CEO Seo Young-joon said on Thursday that the company’s subsidiary in Hunan province in China has turned a profit in the second quarter.It is the unit’s first profit since 2013, when Isu Petasys acquired the factory from Taiwan’s TTL.Seo said the network printed circuit board (PCB) compan

OLED is widely used in smartphones and smart watches, but hardly in IT applications, or for tablets, notebooks and monitors. Liquid crystal display (LCD) is still the dominant panel used in non-smartphone products.South Korean display equipment maker had hoped for Samsung Display and LG Display to e

A total of 122 models of OLED smartphones were launched in the first half of 2021, according to market research firm UBI Research.Out of the total, 119 models, or 97.5%, were in the 6-inch range in terms of size, the firm said.This is a 20 point increase from 2018, when 78% of OLED smartphones had 6

Major Chinese phone brands are expected to supply ultra-thin glasses (UTG) as voer windows for their upcoming foldable smartphones, TheElec has learned.Samsung was the first to shift away from polyimide films to glasses for the cover windows on its foldable smartphones.The company’s original Galaxy

LG InnoTek and Corning are collaborating in the research of liquid lens, their patent filings showed.The pair had decided to share 50/50 stakes in nine US patents related to liquid lens on April 5, documents seen by TheElec showed.Corning decided to share stakes in six of its patents with LG InnoTek

LG InnoTek has completed selling its 114 patents in South Korea related to LED technologies to Chinese company Suzhou LEKIN Semiconductor, TheElec has learned.The transaction was completed on July 2, according South Korea patent portal Kipris run by the Korean Intellectual Property Office.LG InnoTek

A Samsung Electro-Mechanics executive said on Wednesday that the company was researching metalens.Metalens is a flat lens that have nano particles aligned on its surface.Though the lens is flat, the particles bend the light to collect them.The technology allows lens to be made thinner than they are

Samsung Display has increased its shipment target for notebook OLED panels this year.The company originally aimed to ship over four million units but increased this to between 5.5 million to six million units, people familiar with the matter said.This is 40% to 50% higher than its initial target.The