South Korean LED firm Wooree E&L has secured half the supply of LED module used by customer LG Display, TheElec has learned.People familiar with the matter said Wooree’s LED modules currently accounts for around 50% of those used by the South Korean display panel maker.LED modules are used as the ba

Automotive display shipment is expected to reach 238 million units in 2030, according to market research firm Omdia.This is an average growth of 6.5% per year from 2020, in which 127 million units were shipped. According to Omdia’s forecast, exterior mirrors (or emirror) and head-up displays will sh

China topped the automotive display market in 2020, according to Omdia.The country held a market share of over 30%, surpassing Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.Chinese panel maker BOE began making automotive liquid crystal display (LCD) panel for the first time in 2012.Omdia pointed out that China was

China’s display market was worth 446 billion yuan in 2020, according to local media FDDisplay.This was a 19.7% year-on-year growth, according to the report, and equals 40.3% of worldwide market share.As of the end of 2020, there was in total 35 display panel lines (of over Gen 6 substrates), the rep

LG Energy Solution was seeking to foster more suppliers it deals with directly instead of going through LG Electronics’ Production engineering Research Institute (PRI), TheElec has learned.Up to now, LG Energy Solution used battery equipment maker through LG PRI.In this arrangement, the equipment ma

Samsung Display may extend its production of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels up to the end of 2022, TheElec has learned.Samsung Display CEO Choi Joo-sun said the company was reviewing extending the production of large-sized LCD panels to the end of 2022, in an email sent to employees of its larg

Corning has completed the construction of a glass factory at Wuhan, adjacent to BOE’s liquid crystal display (LCD) factory.This will likely boost the Chinese display panel maker’s production of large LCD TV panels larger than 65-inches.Corning’s Gen 10.5 (3370x2940mm) LCD glass factory was built nex

Samsung Display said on Thursday that its OLED panels used in the Galaxy Book Pro series of notebooks received the Gaming Performance certification from SGS.SGS’s review showed that the panel had below 1.4mm in blur length and 15.4ms in multimedia response time.Samsung said this was superior to liqu

OLED emission material companies recorded high first quarter earnings that beat market expectations.Apple’s iPhone 12 sales, Samsung’s earlier than usual launch of Galaxy S21 smartphones, expanded application of OLED panels in notebooks and mid-tier phones, and Chinese panel makers expanding their O

Display equipment maker Invenia has developed an inductively coupled plasma (ICP) dry etcher for use in Gen 10.5 (2940x3370) substrates.The company said the etcher can be used in Gen 10.5 OLED and liquid crystal display (LCD) production lines.The firm has previously offered etchers for Gen 8.5 (2200

LG Display said on Wednesday that it has recorded 6.88 trillion won in sales and 523 billion won in operating income in the first quarter.Sales increased 46% from the a year prior. However, sales dropped 8% and operating income 24% from the previous quarter.The firm beat South Korean analysts’ conse

Apple was suffering setbacks in its production of the new Mini LED iPad Pro due to problems in surface mount technology (SMT) process, TheElec has learned.This was due to the low production yield rate of Taiwan’s TSMT, one of the SMT suppliers for the newly unveiled devices, people familiar with the

An executive at LG Display has received the top science honor given by the South Korean government.Oh Chang-ho, executive vice president and head of TV business at LG Display, has won the Order of Science and Technology Merit for his contribution to the country’s display industry. The Order is the t

Major display panel companies in South Korea and China are expected to see improved earnings in the first quarter.South Korean analysts expect Samsung Display and LG Display to see significant improvement in their performances for the quarter compared to a year prior.LG Display is expected record sa

Samsung Display is planning to produce a prototype of a TV that uses its quantum dot organic light emitting diode (QD-OLED) panel in June, TheElec has learned.The company is also planning to produce a QD-OLED monitor prototype as well. These prototypes will be sent to potential customers such as Sam

Wonik IPS is always open to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and the company will need to secure additional processes to compete with world-class companies, a company executive told TheElec on Thursday.The executive, who was speaking after Wonik IPS’ shareholders’ meeting, said while it wasn’t reviewi

LG Display CEO said on Tuesday that the company will beef up its safety management standard going forward.Company CEO Jeong Ho-young’s comment at its shareholders’ meeting comes after a worker died following a gas leak at one of the firm’s plant in South Korea.Jeong said the company was still invest

Samsung Display’s OLED panel shipment dropped 9% in January from the previous month to 45 million units, according to market research firm Omdia.Low sales of iPhone 12 Mini was the cause, the firm said.Apple launched four models in its iPhone 12 series last year. As a whole, the series recorded stro

Semes’ talks to sell its display equipment business unit to Wonik IPS for 82 billion won has failed.Wonik IPS said on Friday that the pair’s contract for the deal signed on August 31 has been canceled and they were no longer in talks.The company said Semes, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, calle

Display equipment manufacturer Avaco on Thursday said it was conducting a reliability review on its semiconductor packaging sputter with a semiconductor company.The company is hoping sales from the supply of the sputters will occur this yearAvaco is pushing metal layer deposition sputter, used for w