South Korean semiconductor and display equipment maker Semes is having a tough time trying to sell off its underperforming display equipment business, industry sources said on July 8.The Samsung Electronics’ affiliate has been seeking to unload the underperforming unit to companies like FNS Tech and

California-based Apple reportedly paid around 900 billion won ($765.5 million) to Samsung Display in the second quarter of this year for failing to take on an agreed volume of flexible OLED panels for its smartphones.On July 5, Samsung said in its earnings guidance that its second quarter earnings i

LG Electronics is in talks with BOE on buying smartphone OLED panels from the Chinese display maker, according to industry sources on July 1. This means there’s a good chance that the new smartphones from LG next year would be fitted with BOE’s OLED screens.For LG Display, this isn’t good news becau

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

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.

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

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,

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

Samsung Display failed to run a booth at this year’s Display Week conference organized by Society of Information Display(SID) in San Jose earlier this month. Some say the display-maker may forgo the event next year as well.Booth location was the main cause for Samsung’s reticence, they noted.“Until

OLEDON Chief executive Hwang Guang-hoon said on May 27 that he received mostly positive reviews at SID 2019.“We had a lot of good feedback,” said the CEO of the South Korean manufacturer, adding that such upbeat views are rare at the event.The response was to the company's announcement that it can a

LG Display will be rolling out 48-inch OLED TVs in 2020, according to a top executive.“It’s a strategy to solidify our footing in the high-end TV market, while continuing to have presence in the standard and premium segments,” Oh Chang-ho, the South Korean display-maker’s vice president of the TV bu

HIMS, a South Korean manufacturer of Fine Metal Masks (FMM) for small-and-mid-sized OLED panels, is expected see a sales boost from its Chinese operations.Market estimates for HIMS’ revenues this year are at 80 billion won (US$ 67.3 million), just shy of the 90 billion won-plus figure two years ago.

Lim Jung-Han, Director of the High-Performance Display Division of Corning, said, "We started mass production of ‘Astra’, a new glass substrate, in March of this year. In the second half of the year, TVs made with the display panel containing the substrate glass will be available." Director Lim also

Samsung Display is in talks with Apple of USA about the supply of display panels for laptops and tablets with thin-film caps (TFE) to rigid OLEDs. The thin-film cap is a method applied to flexible OLEDs. By replacing the conventional glass cap, the thickness of the rigid OLED is reduced. It is a so-

YAS, the only deposition equipment maker mass-producing large OLEDs, expects to complete its new factory for the production of 10.5-generation (10.5G) equipment at the end of August. A formal order (PO) is expected at the time of completion of the factory. The 10.5G deposition equipment to be produc

LG Electronics will release an '8K resolution 88-inch OLED TV' in July or August at the latest. The '8K OLED TV' will be released first, and a ‘Rollable TV’ will be put on the market by the end of this year. LG Display's 10.5-generation factory in Paju is officially confirmed to start its operation

On the 13th, it has been reported that some small and medium-sized companies exporting display equipment to China are still experiencing difficulties due to back payment delays. In some cases, absurd requests were made requesting the postponement of payment deadlines without also changing the expect

JUSUNG Engineering will produce the first domestic 10.5 generation thin film transistor (TFT) vapor deposition CVD equipment. The first customer to be delivered to is LG Display’s 10.5-generation large OLED production line at the P10 plant in Paju, Gyeonggi-do. TFT deposition equipment of higher tha