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

LG Group had refused to hand over its chip development team to LX Group, which had split off from the former last year, TheElec has learned.LX Semicon, formerly called Silicon Works, had made a request during the second half of 2021 to LG Electronics to transfer its personnel and asset under the Sys

Samsung Display is unlikely to decide within the first half of this year on whether it will spend more to expand its production capacity of quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels this year, TheElec has learned.It is unlikely that the company will hold an investment review on QD-OLED during the first half of 2

Chinese display maker CSOT has placed orders for equipment to use in the production of large liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, TheElec has learned.The company has recently placed orders for use at its Gen 8.6 (2250x2600mm) oxide thin-film transistor (TFT) LCD production line at its T9 factory in

LG Electronics said it has recorded 74.72 trillion won in revenue and 3.86 trillion won in operating income for the entire year of 2021.The revenue figure is its highest to date, which the South Korean electronic maker credited to high sales of premium home appliances.Revenue increased 28.7% from 20

Samsung is planning to begin production of new MicroLED TVs in May with lowered price tags, TheElec has learned.The company’s first 110-inch MicroLED launched last year had a price tag of 170 million won.But Samsung is planning to lower this by around 40% to 100 million won for its new 89-inch and 1