Samsung placed an order to LG Display to procure white-OLED panels earlier this month, TheElec has learned.The order is small and Samsung is planning to use the panels for the development of a W-OLED TV it will unveil later in the year, sources said.LG Display will deliver the panels to Samsung with

Display production equipment maker Sunic System said on Tuesday that it will be supplying its deposition machine for OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) to Chinese display panel maker SeeYa.The deal is worth 32.2 billion won and the contract will last until June of 2024.OLEDoS is a microdisplay that is touted

LG Display is planning to develop hybrid OLED panel to supply to automobile customers, TheElec has learned.Hybrid OLED panels uses glass substrates and thin-film encapsulation (TFE), technologies that were used mutually exclusively for rigid OLED panels and flexible OLED panels, respectively, in the

Inkjet printing solution firm Enjet’s earnings this year will again be determined by Samsung and Samsung Display.Enjet, which listed on Kosdaq last year, is aiming for an annual revenue of 44.8 billion won and an operating profit of 18.2 billion won, sources said.These goals are higher by 2 times an

Aluminum parts maker Almac said on Tuesday it has 1.5 trillion won worth of remaining orders.The orders from automobile and battery companies are enough to provide Almac with revenues up to 2030, Almac Executive Director Junpyo Park told a press conference as the company prepares to list on the Sout

Japanese tech giant Sony, which is supplying the panel used by Apple for its new mixed reality device Vision Pro, has a capacity of 900,000 units of these panels per year, TheElec has learned.Sony manufactures the OLED on silicon, or OLEDoS, which uses silicon as a substrate to make a high-resolutio

Display equipment maker Charm Engineering has won its patent lawsuit against Enjet after three years of legal back and forths.Earlier this month, the Supreme Court denied the two appeals made by Enjet against Charm Engineering.Enjet had filed appeals against two Patent Court decisions that invalidat

HB Technology will be supplying automated optical inspection (AOI) and repair equipment to glass substrate maker Absolics, a subsidiary of SKC, TheElec has learned.It is a new revenue source for HB Technology, which never supplied inspection equipment for glass substrates for chip packaging before.I

Samsung Display has started placing orders for equipment it wants to install on its first Gen 8 OLED production line.This was confirmed by its equipment suppliers Philoptics, FNS Tech, KCTech and HIMS.Philoptics said it signed a deal worth 63 billion won; FNS Tech 36 billion won; KCTech 35.7 billion

Samsung Display is planning to apply its hybrid OLED technology in automotive display panels, TheElec has learned.The South Korean display panel so far only supplied rigid OLED panels for its automobile customers.The hybrid OLED panel is a step up from rigid OLED panels in that while it uses glass s

Samsung is planning to share internally the first mold version of the waterdrop hinge it has designed to apply on its upcoming foldable smartphones, TheElec has learned.The mold version will be shared internally this week and is the last step before verification, sources said.After the verification,

Japan’s Sharp was not part of Apple’s project to develop camera modules for the iPhone 16 Series at the current time, TheElec has learned.As such projects usually start two years prior to the commercial launch, Sharp’s absence means it is effectively out of Cupertino’s camera module supply chain for

OLED firm eMagin said on Wednesday that it will merge with Samsung Display for US$218 million.Samsung Display will acquire eMagin’s stock for US$2.08 per share, which reflects a 10% premium to eMagin’s closing share price on Tuesday of US$1.89.The South Korean display panel maker will secure RGB OLE

Hanwha Solution is planning to complete the construction of its OLED fine metal mask (FMM) factory being built at Asan within the year.However, the company is yet to secure a customer, sources said.FMM is used to form the red, green and blue subpixels of an OLED panel. Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing is

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Tuesday that it has developed two new multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) for automotive applications.The new MLCCs are 250V, 33nF and 100V, 10microF for 125 Celsius, respectively, in specifications.The South Korean component maker said the two new MLCCs had the h

Samsung Electro-Mechanics was conducting research into developing and manufacturing oxide solid-state batteries aimed at IT devices, TheElec has learned.Solid-state batteries use solid electrolytes rather than liquid ones in currently commercialized batteries.The electrolyte, which is between the ca

Hyundai Motor Group said on Tuesday that it will spend 2 trillion won to build a new electric vehicle factory in South Korea.Construction of the factory to be built at the city of Ulsan will start in the fourth quarter this year with completion expected in 2025.The new factory will use smart systems

BOE chairman Chen Yanshun didn’t make a visit to Samsung, a key customer of the Chinese display panel maker, during his visit to South Korea in April, TheElec has learned.It is extremely rare for a high-level company executive of a component maker to not make a visit to a customer during a foreign t

A cloud hangs over the profitability of Gen 8 OLED. This is because Apple’s revenues from MacBooks are dropping, a key product that would use the OLED panels made by display panel maker’s Gen 8 OLED production lines.The iPhone maker’s revenue from MacBooks was US$7.168 billion during its fiscal seco

Samsung has ordered its TV and smartphone businesses to find a solution to improve their earnings, TheElec has learned.Samsung reported 63.75 trillion won in revenue and 640 billion won in operating income for the first quarter, a drop of 18% and 95%, respectively, from the same time period a year a