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

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

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

LG Electronics has unveiled its 2021 TV lineup ahead of CES 2021.It has unveiled a new OLED TV called OLED evo, model name G1, which the company said offer clearer resolution than predecessors.The new TV has brighter screen compared to predecessors while also offering high contrast ratio, deep black

LG Display will extend its production of liquid crystal display (LCD) TV panels in South Korea by a year, TheElec has learned.The extensions comes from LG Electronics’ request as it was finding difficulty in securing sufficient volume of LCD panels.LG Display has initially intended to halt LCD TV pa

LG Display said on Thursday that it will show off various display solutions for remote services at the upcoming CES 2021 that starts on January 11.The South Korean display panel maker said the theme of its exhibition will be “Display, now the real world comes to you”.LG Display will showoff its 88-i

LG Display said on Tuesday that its OLED panel have received certificate from Eyesafe.Eyesafe measures blue light emissions in devices. The certificate is given when out of the total blue light emitted, below 50% is not harmful and out of total visible light, harmful blue light only accounts for bel

A shortage in production capacity compared to demand in semiconductors is expected to increase their prices in 2021. Some companies have already notified their customers of the price hike.TSMC, the world’s largest contract chip maker, recently scrapped its price cut policy (up to 3%) for major custo

Samsung Display on Sunday said it plans to launch over 10 OLED panels aimed at notebooks this year.The company last year launched 5 OLED panels for notebooks.Samsung Display is expecting to ship five times the OLED panels for notebook in 2021 compared to a year ago due to continued demand for PCs fr

LG Display on Thursday said it will display transparent OLED panels at the upcoming online CES 2021.The company said the panels have a transparency rate of 40%. LG Display said this was way higher than liquid crystal display’s (LCD) 10% and the panels are glass clear.LG Display said it will show off

Samsung Display’s sales from smartphone OLED panel will exceed US$5 billion in the first quarter of 2021, according to market research firm Omdia.The South Korea display panel maker is expected to post sales of US$5.18 billion in the quarter.It is a rise of around 30% from its first quarter sales in

The controversy over Infintech’s delayed payments to South Korean display equipment maker isn’t looking close to a resolution anytime soon.The Chinese company had ordered equipment from companies back in 2018 to build a 6th-generation liquid crystal display (LCD) factory at Jiangxi, but the deadline

LG Electronics will launch a new liquid crystal display (LCD) TV called QNED TV that uses MiniLED as the backlight.The company on Tuesday unveiled the TV at an online press event in South Korea.LG QNED TV will have a technology called quantum nanocell color technology, which combines nanocell and qu