Samsung is expected to begin selling OLED TVs with panels provided by LG Display in September, analyst UBI Research said in its forecast on Thursday.UBI Research CEO Choong Hoon Yi said during a conference hosted by the analyst firm in Busan, South Korea that LG Display is expected to manufacture up

Samsung Electronics and LG Display’s ongoing negotiation over the supply of TV OLED panels was focused on budge OLED panels, TheElec has learned.Samsung, the world’s largest TV manufacturer by revenue, is launching OLED TVs this year after a 9-year hiatus and is procuring OLED panels from Samsung Di

LG Display is considering a variety of OLED technologies for when it launches OLED panels dedicated to monitors, a company executive said.The South Korean display panel maker was reviewing both white-OLED (W-OLED) and red, green and blue-OLED (RGB-OLED) for OLED panels aimed at monitors in the 30-in

BOE is planning to build a Gen 8.6 (2250x2600mm) IT OLED panel production line at its B16 factory in the city of Chengdu in Sichuan Province, China, TheElec has learned.The Chinese display panel giant is planning to have the line have a production capacity of 15,000 substrates per month and start pr

Samsung has delayed the start of production for the 89-inch version of its MicroLED TVs, TheElec has learned.The model was originally planned to start production in May along with the 101-inch model.But the production timeline for the 89-inch model has been pushed back to the third quarter of this y

Philoptics was testing its OLED fine metal mask (FMM) with a Chinese panel maker, the company’s CEO said.During its annual shareholders’ meeting, Philoptics CEO Han Ki-su said the evaluation process, which started late last year, will take approximately a year to complete.This means Philoptics will

Samsung Display was currently developing a new under panel camera technology for its customer Apple to hide the Face ID under the display in the next iPhone, TheElec has learned.Samsung Display’s technology is expected to apply first to Samsung Electronics’ foldable phones launching next year, follo

LG Display has been evaluating the deposition process for Gen 8.5 (2200x2500mm) OLED panels since December last year, TheElec has learned.The evaluation is being done at its supplier Sunic System’s facility at Paju, sources said. The facility houses Sunic System’s Gen 8.5 half-cut and vertical depos

Chinese display giant BOE was in talks with smartphone brand Honor to manufacture a two-stack tandem OLED panel to apply to a smartphone planned for later this year, TheElec has learned.The pair believe that the use of the technology, where the OLED panel has two emission layers, can reduce the powe

LG Display was currently developing two models of OLED panels that it aiming to supply to Apple’s iPads launching in the future, TheElec has learned.LG Display was developing 12.9-inch and 11-inch models, sources said. The company was the exclusive developer of the 12.9-inch model, they said.Samsung

Samsung Display has begun the development of OLED panels with a two-stack tandem structure where the panel has two emission layers (EML), TheElec has learned.The South Korean display maker is developing the panels to win the orders from Apple for its OLED iPads that are expected to launch in 2024, s

Samsung Display could be procuring fine metal mask (FMM), which is used in the production of OLED panels, from South Korean firm Poongwon Precision, TheElec has learned.If Poongwon’s FMM is approved for commercial use by Samsung Display, it could challenge Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing’s dominance in

Samsung Display is likely to add Solus Advanced Materials as a supplier for capping layers (CPL) in its M12 OLED material set, TheElec has learned.The South Korean display maker had previously only used Hodogaya Chemical as a supplier for CPL in its M11 OLED material set, sources said.Samsung Displa

Samsung is using the same OLED material set __ the M11 __ for the panel on the 6.8-inch Galaxy S22 Ultra as the Galaxy S21 Ultra, TheElec has learned.This is likely an attempt to control cost as Samsung’s focus is to increase the shipment of the S22 series compared to the S21 and S20 series, sources

LG Display has made a proposal to LG Electronics to launch a transparent OLED TV, TheElec has learned.The display maker has proposed the launch of a TV that uses a 55-inch transparent OLED panel to LG Electronics’ Home Entertainment Company, its TV business unit, sources said.The panel will be fixed

Chinese display giant BOE is facing production problems in OLED panels for iPhones due to the ongoing global chip shortage, TheElec has learned.The shortage will affect production this month and next month, sources said.BOE procures display driver ICs for the panels from South Korean chip firm LX Se

Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display have hit a roadblock in their negotiations over the price of quantum-dot (QD)-OLED panels that the latter originally planned to supply to the South Korean electronics giant for their TVs, TheElec has learned.The negotiations, which started late last year, have

LG Display was currently shifting some of its OLED production equipment at its E5 line at its plant in Gumi, South Korea to its plant in Paju, TheElec has learned.The company was transferring some of its tensioners __ used in depositing OLED materials on the panel during production __ to its E6-4 li

More TV panels will be manufactured at Gen 10 substrate and above lines this year, according to analyst firm Omdia.The firm expects TV panels made at Gen 10 (2880x3130mm) and Gen 10.5 (2940x3370mm) lines to account for 31.8% of the total TV panels __ including both liquid crystal displays (LCD) and

Samsung Display is unlikely to decide within the first half of this year on whether it will spend more to expand its production capacity of quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels this year, TheElec has learned.It is unlikely that the company will hold an investment review on QD-OLED during the first half of 2