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

Iljin Display is hoping to return to profitability from notebook and MiniLED markets.The company announced that it will offer shares to secure 20 billion won in funding. 10 billion won will be spent on facilities related to notebook components, the company said.Out of the 10 billion won, 60 billion

NEG’s liquid crystal display (LCD) glass factory in Takatsuki, Japan has suffered a five hour blackout, according to local media Nikkei.Production is expected return to normal after the first quarter of 2021.The factory was halted from the blackout on December 10.NEG produces glass substrates for us

Samsung Display is transferring hundreds of its employees to Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor business as it prepares to exit the liquid crystal display (LCD) business.The display panel maker was taking application from employees for the transfer and sorting through who to send. Hundreds of employ

Chinese OLED material company AG-RAY has started the largest OLED material project in China to localize supply of the materials, according to local media reports.The company is building a new OLED material factory at city of Meishan in Sichuan province where it is based in.The factory, once complete

Samsung Display’s sales of its liquid crystal display (LCD) factory in Suzhou, China is facing delays, Chinese media Ijiwei reports.This is from delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic for the South Korean government to approval the deal.LCD is designated a national core technology by the South Korea

Samsung Display will begin trail runs of its production line for Quantum Dot (QD) displays next month, TheElec has learned.The line, dubbed Q1, at its factory in Asan, was designed to produce QD-OLED(organic light emitting diode) panels. QD-OLED will be the first iteration of Samsung Display’s so-ca

Display panel sales in the third quarter of 2020 hit its highest in three years thanks to price rise of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels.Sales hit US$30.5 billion in the third quarter, a rise of 11% from a year ago and 21% higher than the previous quarter, according to Display Supply Chain Consul

Apple is preparing to adopt OLED screens for its iPad Pro tablets launching next year, TheElec has learned.Samsung Display and LG Display, which currently supplies OLED panels for iPhones, were currently developing the new OLED panel for the new tablets that will likely launch in the second half of