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

Samsung is unlikely to launch TVs that use LG Display’s white(W)-OLED panels this year, TheElec has learned.Demand for TVs has dipped compared to the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic while liquid crystal display (LCD) panels that spiked before are dropping again, which means Samsung is in no hurry to l

Samsung Display was researching phosphorescent blue OLED material to apply on quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels, according to a South Korean professor.Kyung Hee University professor Kwon Jang-hyuk told audiences at SID 2022 Review Symposium held in Seoul on Wednesday said it seemed the South Korean displ

Samsung Display has postponed the installation of a pilot line for its next-generation quantum dot nanorod LED (QNED) display panel, TheElec has learned.The technology uses tick-shaped nanorod LEDs as the light source, with multiple units of them representing one pixel on a screen, and if commercial

Revenue from display driver IC (DDI) used in OLED panels is expected to reach US$6.123 billion this year, according to analyst firm Omdia.But this will continue to drop starting next year to drop to US$4.46 billion in 2028.The spread of Covid-19, which caused a shortage of the chips, more than doubl

LG Display was considering applying microlens on its OLED panels aimed at TVs, TheElec has learned.Microlenses can be used to control the direction of the light reflected from the panel to the direction of the viewer.This improves the efficiency of light extraction, increasing the brightness of the

Whether Samsung can launch a white(W)-OLED within the year will depend on whether it can conclude its negotiation with LG Display within May, sources said.The pair had been negotiation has been going on for months but they have yet to agree on a unit price for W-OLED panels that both can agree on, t

LX Semicon saw its operating profit for the first quarter of 2022 jump thanks to the high demand for display driver IC (DDI).The fabless chip company said on Monday in its preliminary earning guidance that it recorded 585.1 billion won in revenue and 127.9 billion won in operating profit during the

Samsung Display has begun the development of a thinner version of its quantum dot (QD)-OLED panel, TheElec has learned.The aim is to reduce the use of glass substrates from the current two to one, sources said.If the South Korean display panel succeeds, the new version of QD-OLED will also be rollab

Samsung is expected to begin selling OLED TVs with panels provided by LG Display in September, analyst UBI Research said in its forecast on Thursday.UBI Research CEO Choong Hoon Yi said during a conference hosted by the analyst firm in Busan, South Korea that LG Display is expected to manufacture up

Samsung Electronics and LG Display’s ongoing negotiation over the supply of TV OLED panels was focused on budge OLED panels, TheElec has learned.Samsung, the world’s largest TV manufacturer by revenue, is launching OLED TVs this year after a 9-year hiatus and is procuring OLED panels from Samsung Di

LG Display is considering a variety of OLED technologies for when it launches OLED panels dedicated to monitors, a company executive said.The South Korean display panel maker was reviewing both white-OLED (W-OLED) and red, green and blue-OLED (RGB-OLED) for OLED panels aimed at monitors in the 30-in

Samsung has delayed the start of production for the 89-inch version of its MicroLED TVs, TheElec has learned.The model was originally planned to start production in May along with the 101-inch model.But the production timeline for the 89-inch model has been pushed back to the third quarter of this y

Corning said on Tuesday that it has supplied its Astra Glass to Samsung Display for use in quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels.Each QD-OLED panel uses two sheets of the glasses: one for the thin-film transistor and another for the QD layer.Samsung Display’s QD-OLED panel will be used in TVs made by Samsung

OLED material startup Lordin said on Tuesday that it has filed a patent related to blue OLED technology with high light emission efficiency.Company CEO Oh Hyoung-yun said the technology offers high-efficiency and a longer life span for the blue OLED materials used in OLED panels.Lordin was aiming to

Automobile component firm Korea Fuel-Tech Corporation has developed its own virtual reality (VR) headset.The prototype is called V300i and the company had applied an optical design to resolve the dizziness issue common in VR headsets, the company said.The device has a 2160x2160 resolution and can vi

Samsung’s market share in the premium TV market last year dropped slightly while those of LG’s increased, according to analyst firm Omdia.Omdia said Samsung Electronics' market share in TVs US$2,500 or higher priced dropped by 3.3 points last year from a year prior.The company, the world’s largest T

LG Display has made a proposal to LG Electronics to launch a transparent OLED TV, TheElec has learned.The display maker has proposed the launch of a TV that uses a 55-inch transparent OLED panel to LG Electronics’ Home Entertainment Company, its TV business unit, sources said.The panel will be fixed

Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display have hit a roadblock in their negotiations over the price of quantum-dot (QD)-OLED panels that the latter originally planned to supply to the South Korean electronics giant for their TVs, TheElec has learned.The negotiations, which started late last year, have

More TV panels will be manufactured at Gen 10 substrate and above lines this year, according to analyst firm Omdia.The firm expects TV panels made at Gen 10 (2880x3130mm) and Gen 10.5 (2940x3370mm) lines to account for 31.8% of the total TV panels __ including both liquid crystal displays (LCD) and