Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 2 has a similar surface hardness for its cover window on the main screen as the Galaxy Z Flip, people knowledgeable on the matter told TheElec on Wednesday.Some processes to make the cover windows for the Fold 2 were changed and the surface hardness is slightly improved compa

Dongwoo Fine-Chem, the South Korean subsidiary of Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical, is planning to launch an in-display 5G antenna, TheElec has learned.The company is hoping to commercialize them within the next one to two years and accrue sales.In-display antenna are not placed in the smartphone. Instead,

Camera lens company Kolen said Tuesday that its largest shareholder Biolog Device will buy 100% of the allot shares of its new share issuance.Both companies are lead by CEO Yi Jae-Sun.Kolen’s latest paid-in capital increase is to secure funding to expand its factory in Vietnam.It plans to allot the

Seoul Viosys has opened its online shopping mall called Violeds Mall, the company said on Tuesday.Violeds is the name of the company’s ultraviolet (UV) LED technology that is used to kill virus and bacteria.Violeds Mall will sell the company’s portable air purifier VAC and multi-purpose sterilizer V

LG Chem is planning to exit the display pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) business, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Monday.It comes four years after the South Korean company bought the business from LG Hausys.The company has recently notified the plan to its subcontractors for its fi

Samsung Display has sold its Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) factory in Suzhou, China to CSOT, the companies announced.COST has acquired a 60% stake in Samsung Suzhou LCD (SSL) and a 100% stake in Suzhou Display (SSM) for a total of US$1.08 billion.Samsung Suzhou LCD’s ownership structure will change t

Japan Display (JDI) will sell a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) factory and the land it sits on to Sharp for US$390 million, the company announced on Friday.The company also said it will sell the equipment at the Hakusan LCD plant to an “overseas customer” for US$285 million, JDI said. The customer in

Display equipment maker Shindo ENG Lab, which listed on KOSDAQ last month, saw its sales for the first half of 2020 drop a steep 58% from a year prior.The company posted operating loss of 4 billion won and sales of 15.7 billion won in the first half of 2020, it said in its filings to local financial

Display repair equipment company Charm Engineering has collected 5.15 billion won in cash dividends from subsidiary Charm Savings Bank, the company said on Friday.Earlier in June, Charm Engineering has said it has secured additional shares of its banking subsidiary. Currently, the company has an 85.

Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) sad on Thursday that it has developed a transparent window-shaped solar battery.Luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) technology has been applied to the battery, KETI said.LSC are transparent plates with nanometer-sized phosphors in them. Some sun light a

Synopex will acquire a factory in Vietnam previous owned by the now defunct Flexcom, the company said on Thursday.The company said it signed the contract to acquire the factory with Woori Bank Vietnam and Vietnam TP Bank. The factory was being auctioned by its creditors.The factory, dubbed Flecom Fa

Hansol Technics is expected to begin contract producing TVs for Samsung Electronics.The company saw sales from Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) module, or LCM, increase substantially in the second quarter.The company said it posted 27.8 billion won in sales from electronics component businesses during t

Display inspection equipment maker K-Mac saw its order backlog increase 78% in the first half of 2020.This will help it improve earnings in the second half of 2020.According to the company’s filings to local financial authorities on Wednesday, K-Mac had 81.7 billion won of order-on-hand as of the fi

Samsung Display will call its smartphone hole display technology Iris Ring, the company said on Wednesday.Hole-in display is used to place the front camera in the hole to reduce notches.The company said it received the Hole Area Clarity verification from the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) for no col

APS Holdings’ paper on fine metal mask (FMM) has been published Journal of Society for Information Display (SID), the company said on Wednesday.The company said its president Chiwoo Kim’s paper FMM was published on the August issue of the prestigious journal.Kim introduced material and laser pattern

Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday that its smart TV has received the Tried and Tested Accreditation from the UK’s Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).The South Korean tech giant has been collaborating with the RNIB since 2013 to increase accessibility of TVs for those who are visuall

Yujin Robot has launched a new 3D scanning LiDAR sensor for indoor autonomous driving, the company said on Wednesday.The YRL3 Series, with one channel, can scan 270 degrees horizontally and 90 degrees vertically.This will allow it to have no blind sports and perform accurate mapping, the company sai

LG InnoTek CEO Jeong Cheol-dong has been named the eighth executive chairman of the Korea Association for Photonics Industry Development (KAPID), the association said on Tuesday.Jeong said, as the new chairman, he will form a network for collaboration within the photonics industry, expand remote con

Jahwa Electronics is planning to sell its camera module factory in Vietnam.The company’s Chinese counterpart Sunny Optical has been chosen as the preferred buyer, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Tuesday.Jahwa build the factory at Vinh Phuc Province back in 2007. The factory has produ

Samsung Electronics said it expects to ship over 100,000 units in total by August for TVs that have screen sizes of 75-inch or larger, the company said on Tuesday.The company launched a new commercial for its QLED 8K TV model.Samsung showed off how a big screen can be best when viewing movies in the