Samsung Electronics is estimating that it will ship around 26 million units of its Galaxy S21 smartphone series this year, TheElec has learned.The figure is conservative as its Galaxy S20 series sold that much in 2020, which was considered underwhelming by the company.Samsung set the conservative fi

Automotive display shipment jumped 22% in 2020 from a year prior, market research firm Omdia said on Friday.The firm said it expects 351 million units of automotive display 9-inch or larger were shipped.Demand contracted in the first half of the year due to the pandemic but recovered in the second h

Employees of Toptec were found not guilty by a court on allegations that they have leaked technology of Samsung Display to China.The Suwon District Court found all 11 employees, including company CEO Bang In-bok, to be not guilty.They were indicted in 2018 by prosecutors for allegedly leaking techno

Samsung Display said on Thursday that it will begin manufacturing 90Hz notebook organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels in March.There will be three 90Hz OLED products. March is when new notebooks are expected to begin sales from various global customers.Previous notebook OLED supported up to 60H

Samsung Display on Tuesday has filed a second patent lawsuit against JOLED in the US, claiming the latter violated its patents.Intellectual Keystone Technology (IKT), a US subsidiary of Samsung Display, filed the suit to the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, against JOLED and Asus

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Wednesday that it was supplying a 0.65mm thin 3-terminal multi layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) to a global smartphone maker.The company is likely supply the capacitors for the Galaxy S21 series of smartphones launched by Samsung Electronics this month.The new MLCC is

LG Display has halted production of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels for iPhones, TheElec has learned.The factory that previously made the panels will be converted to making automobile display panels.LG Display halted iPhone LCD production at its AP3 line at Gumi in the third quarter. The line al

Chinese display panel giant will secure 20 billion yuan in funds to expand its Chongqing display line, known as B12, which produces OLED panels for smartphones, according to local media Yicai.The funds will also be used to secure additional shares of Wuhan BOE Optoelectronics __ its Gen 10.5 liquid

The shortage in display driver IC (DDI) was one of the factors for display panel makers to prefer producing larger panels.Due to the shortage, display panel makers chose monitor panels over TV panel and larger TV panels over smaller ones.TV and monitor panels are usually produced at the same generat

MiniLED TVs will be leading the premium TV market by 2025, market research firm UBI Research said Tuesday.China’s TCL lead the development of MiniLED TV but the market will be led by Samsung and LG, the firm said.MiniLED TV will overtake OLED TV in market share after 2024, UBI Research said.MiniLED

Only the Galaxy S21 Ultra showed higher specs than its predecessor Galaxy S21 in Samsung’s Unpacked event on Thursday.The specs of Galaxy S21 and S21 Plus was downgraded to compared to predecessors.The Galaxy S21 Ultra has a 6.8-inch screen with QHD+ (3,200x1,440) resolution. The display’s has a 515

Mcnex unveiled its in-cabin camera system at CES 2021.The system offers driver and occupant monitoring in side cars.This is increase safety for passengers, Mcnex said.Such system is applied more and more by automobile companies in preparation of the self-driving cars, the South Korean company said.M

SoluM is aiming to surpass BOE in electronic shelf labels (ESL) within the next three years to become the world’s largest vendor, CEO Jun Sung Ho said on Wednesday.In 2019, BOE acquired France’s SES Imagotag, which is the world’s largest ESL maker. Ranked second is Sweden’s Pricer. SoluM is third.So

LG Display said on Wednesday that its factory at Paju suffered a gas leak that injured six people.Tetramethylammonium hydroxide was leaked when workers were trying to reconnect a pipe at LG’s P8 factory, the company said.Two were heavily injured __ they suffered heart attacks but were revived __ whi

Skyworth on Tuesday unveiled 16 new models of OLED and liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs at CES 2021.Its XC9300 TV is offered in 55 and 65-inch sizes and have 120Hz screen refresh rate, Dolby Atmos and DTS surround sound.Some TV models will also support Google Apps.The Chinese TV panel maker said it

Chinese TV maker TCL showed off its new MiniLED TV called OD Zero at CES 2021.The TV has thousands of local dimming zone and has 50% thinner backlight, TCL claimed.It also improves contrast ratio compared to predecessors and minimizes optical crosstalk, the company said.TCL also announced a partners

Mcnex, in collaboration with Corephotonics, announced that they have developed a front prism dual-sensing ADAS camera at CES 2021.The camera will improve autonomous driving in cars. It will receive videos of intersections and curved roads to the control unit, Mcnex said.One camera will monitor the f

LG Display unveiled a 77-inch OLED panel at CES 2021 made with new organic light emitting material.The company said is used a new high efficiency organic material for the panel that increases luminance by 20%.This will allow the panel to show brighter pictures and will be used in high-end OLED produ

LG Display CTO Yoon Soo-young said on Monday that MiniLED technology was an extension of existing liquid crystal display (LCD) technology that has clear limitations.MiniLED was an LCD with improved backlighting that has the same limitation a conventional LCD, Yoon said.OLED will continue to be ahead

TCL’s plan to shift the liquid crystal display (LCD) factory it is buying from Samsung Display from TV panels to IT panels is likely to be delayed, TheElec has learned.This is due to the shortage of LCD TV panels, and customers are requesting TCL extend LCD TV panel production at Suzhou, people fami