Samsung Electronics is planning to manufacture 290.68 million units of smartphones in 2023, TheElec has learned.This is 13% of the production target of 334.2 million units it had set near the end of 2021 for this year.Manufacturers always set a production target around 10% higher than their shipment

Samsung Display purchased 42 patents in the US related to oxide thin-film transistors (TFT) from Fujifilm last month, TheElec has learned.The South Korean panel currently uses oxide TFT on its Gen 8 quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels.Samsung Display may use the technology again for Gen 8 OLED panels aimed

Samsung’s profitability dropped substantially during the third quarter from the downturn in the memory market.However, its foundry business, or contract chip production, posted its highest quarterly revenue ever from the improved yield rate of advanced nodes.The tech giant said it reported 76.78 tri

Samsung has begun procuring under-display cameras from new supplier Coasia Optics for the Galaxy Z Fold 4 foldable smartphones, TheElec has learned.Fold 4 launched back in August and like its predecessor has a front camera that can be hidden under the display.Samsung previously procured this camera

Japan’s Canon Tokki is the leader in OLED deposition equipment and the industry is watching closely whether they will maintain this leadership in the era of Gen 8 OLED as it did the prior generations.Samsung Display and LG Display, the company’s main customers, are currently developing equipment for

Samsung has been sued by a former employee last month in the US over alleged patent infringement, TheElec has learned.Former employee Kim Seung-man alleges in his suit filed in the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Samsung and Samsung Electronics America that the companies inf

Samsung Display and LG Display is opting to use larger substrates for the production OLED panels aimed at IT devices besides smartphones, TheElec has learned.They are developing the substrate to be Gen 8.7 (2290x2620mm) slightly larger than Gen 8.5 (2200x2500mm) substrates commonly adopted as Gen 8

Samsung is planning to increase the battery capacity of the Plus model on the Galaxy S23 series launching next year, TheElec has learned.Galaxy S23 Plus will have its capacity increased by 5% to around 4700mAh, compared to the 4500mAh of its predecessor.It is unclear whether the standard model and t

Samsung Display is showing interest in an OLED panel production technology that doesn’t require the use of masks, TheElec has learned.A high-level executive of the South Korean display panel maker recently visited its equipment supplier Applied Materials’ headquarters in the US to discuss JDI’s eLEA

Samsung is planning to secure more production capacity for OLED display driver ICs from its contract chip maker UMC of Taiwan next year.Samsung System LSI, the unit that designs logic chips, is expected to order more of its display driver ICs made due to high demand for them by key customers, source

Samsung said on Thursday that it has joined the RE100 initiative and will target reaching net zero carbon emission by 2025.RE100 stands for Renewable Energy 100% and its aim is to have companies use 100% renewable energy by 2025.Samsung said it uses the most energy among ICT manufacturers __ it used

Samsung Display is planning to manufacture single stack OLED first at its first Gen 8 OLED production line, TheElec has learned.The company is planning to build a Gen 8 (2200x2500mm) substrate OLED production line.The larger substrate used in the line compared to Gen 6, which mostly makes panels for

Samsung Display had transferred its patents in the US related to liquid crystal display (LCD) to CSOT back in June, TheElec has learned.It also transferred its patents in South Korea to the Chinese company last month, sources said.A total of 577 patents in the US were given to CSOT, which bought Sam

Apple is expected to use ‘hybrid’ OLED panels in its first OLED iPad that it will launch a few years from now, TheElec has learned.Hybrid OLED panels refer to OLED panels that use both rigid OLED panel and flexible OLED panel technologies.Rigid OLED panels use glass as substrates while flexible OLED

Samsung Display was considering both ultra-thin glass (UTG) and transparent polyimide (PI) film to use as cover windows for foldable OLED panels aimed at tablets and notebooks, TheElec has learned.The company currently uses UTG for foldable OLED panels it manufactures for smartphones such as the Gal

Samsung has dropped its smartphone shipment target for 2022 from the previous 300 million units to 260 million units, TheElec has learned.Earlier in the year, the South Korean tech giant had planned to manufacture a total of 334 million units of smartphones with the goal of shipping around 300 milli

Samsung will ship 11 million units of its upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Galaxy Z Flip 4 foldable smartphones by the year’s end, analyst firm Omdia says.While when achieved, this will be over 50% higher than last year’s shipment for Fold 3 and Flip 3, it falls short of the tech giant’s internal target

Smartphone camera module maker Partron reported lackluster second-quarter earnings due to major customer Samsung manufacturing fewer smartphones.Demand for smartphones during the second half of 2022 is also expected to be low while Samsung is planning to reduce the number of camera modules on the ph

Poongwon Precision is expected to aim to supply Samsung Display with fine metal masks (FMM) used in the production of smartphone OLED panels in the fourth quarter, TheElec has learned.The company had said back in February that it is planning to supply an initial match of the material to an unnamed c

Samsung Display will be applying different grades of materials on the OLED panels it will manufacture for the upcoming iPhone 14 series depending on the model tiers, TheElec has learned.It will use its latest and most advanced material set for the higher tier iPhone 14 models while it will use its p