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

Samsung Display has been ordered by a court in Seoul on Friday to compensate its former employee for their invetion.The employee, who have requested compensation of 150 billion won, had said they will appeal. The dispute between the pair is expected to continue to the appeals court.Samsung Display w

China’s display industry will have level market share with South Korea this year, according to Omdia.China’s panel sales will reach US$42.5 billion this year with a market share of 36.3%%, the research firm said.South Korea, meanwhile, is expected to post sales of US$43.6 billion this year for a mar

Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and other major TV vendors are planning to launch miniLED TVs in 2021.MiniLED TVs will likely makeup the premium segment of liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs, which is still the dominant technology in the global TV market.MiniLED is being touted as the next-generat

Half of new flexible OLED smartphones launching in 2021 will be produced by Apple, according to data from research firm Stone Partners.According to the research firm, 315 million smartphones launching next year will use a flexible OLED panel.This is 52% higher than this year’s expected shipment of 2

Samsung Electronics said on Thursday it posted 12.35 trillion won in operating profit and almost 66.96 trillion won in sales in the third quarter of 2020.Operating profits was its highest in two years and sales was its highest ever for a quarter, Samsung said.The mobile business contributed 4.45 tri

LG InnoTek said on Wednesday that it was existing LED business.It the first official confirmation from the company itself that it was doing so.Last year in October, LG InnoTek has already decided to exit the LED business and told its retailers that it was planning to halt LED chip and package produc

Samsung SDI posted 267.4 billion won in operating income and 3.08 trillion won in sales in the third quarter.It is a rise of 61.6% and 20.2%, respectively, year over year.The company saw demand rise for both circular and prismatic batteries.Its electronics material business also posted strong growth

Display panel inspection equipment maker Dong A Eltek is aiming to supply more OLED-related kits to Chinese display panel maker Visionox.Last month, the South Korean company singed a 20.7 billion won contract with the Chinese company for demura systems, people familiar with the matter told TheElec.V

Seoul Semiconductor saw its operating income for the third quarter of 2020 rise 111.7% year over year.The company posted 25.4 billion won in operating income and 331 billion won in sales during the quarter.It was also a sales increase of 16.8% year over year and its highest quarterly sales ever, Seo

LG Display has posted higher-than-expected earnings in the third quarter of 2020.The company posted 164.4 billion won in operating profits and 6.73 trillion won in sales in the quarter.The operating profit figure beats that of the market consensus of South Korean analysts, which expected operating p

Samsung Corning Advanced Glass has filed almost no patents for the past seven years, TheElec has learned.The company filed patents actively after being founded but this has dropped and is acting more as a production-focused entity.This contrast with Corning Precision Materials, formerly called Samsu

Chinese display panel makers are expected to shift some of their liquid crystal display (LCD) TV lines for those of monitors, according to market research firm TrendForce.This was due to their 10.5-generation TV LCD lines increasing in operations __ the previous 8.5 and 8.6-generation TV LCD lines w