Samsung Electronics will run pre-orders for its Galaxy Tab S7 series from August 18 to 22 for South Korea, the company said on Friday.The regular Galaxy Tab S7 comes with a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) for the first time for a flagship tablet. It has used LCD for Tab S7 Lite launched earlier this ye

Display equipment maker Invenia has clinched a 65 billion won supply deal with HKC of China, the company said on Friday.The amount of the deal is level with that of its sales for the first half of 2020, which was 66.9 billion won.The contract will last until August 19.Invenia’s main good its its dry

Samsung Electronics has restarted its original design manufacturing (ODM) operations after it was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic.The company’s ODM partner Wingtech of China has launched the Galaxy M01s smartphone last month, which is aimed at Asian markets. The phone is a derivative of the Galaxy M

Optical film company Shinwha Intertek is entering the encapsulant market for large-sized organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels, the company told TheElec on Tuesday.It has already provided samples for multiple display panel makers, including LG Display, a company spokesperson said. Shinwha was e

Wooree E&L has seen volume increase in its shipment of LED modules to LG Display thanks to LG InnoTek exiting the business.LG InnoTek has stopped its production of backlight unit (BLU) LED modules for IT devices and TV in the first half of the year. It still produces LED modules for automobiles, how

Samsung Electronics has unveiled the new Galaxy Tab S7 tablet series as well as the new Galaxy Watch3 smartwatch and Galaxy Buds Live wireless earphones at Unpacked on Wednesday.The 11-inch Galaxy Tab S7 sports a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and the 12.4-inch Galaxy Tab S7 Plus has an organic light

Seoul Semiconductor has significantly increased the LED it supplies to LG Electronics for the latter’s LCD TVs, TheElec has learned.It is due to LG InnoTek halting LED module production for backlight units (BLU) used in LCD TVs. South Korean LED maker Ledaz has also entered LG Electronics’ supply ch

LG Electronics will run a reward program for customers returning their old TVs before buying a new OLED TV, the company said on Tuesday.Customers can turn in their old LED and LCD TVs. They will get up to 2 million won worth of benefits for any new OLED TV they buy except those on display on stores

Samsung Electronics marked 8.15 trillion won in operating profits and 52.97 trillion won in sales in the second quarter of 2020, the company said on Thursday.It is a rise of 23.5% and drop of 5.6%, respectively, year over year.Samsung’s semiconductor business contributed the lion’s share in operatin

Seoul Semiconductor has posted operating profits of 13.7 billion won and sales of 268 billion won for the second quarter of 2020, the company said on Wednesday.It is rise of 22.7% and drop of 7%, respectively. It beat market consensus of 8.1 billion won and 263.4 billion won. It is also in line with

LG Display has supplied world’s largest monitor maker Dell with light emitting diode (LED) Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) panels, TheElec has learned.The South Korean display maker provided the panels for Dell’s 31.5-inch medical miniLED monitor launched earlier this year.MiniLED is being touted as th

LG Display is aiming to ship 5 million large-sized OLED panels this year, the company said on Thursday at its conference call for second quarter earnings.Company CFO Seo Dong hee said the COVID-19 pandemic remained a risk but it will react to the market situation to find sales opportunities.5 millio

LG Display has posted operating loss of 517 billion won in the second quarter, the company said on Thursday.However, the company said it saw panel shipment increase for mobile and TVs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a 12% increase in sales to 5.3 trillion won.Loss for the quarter was wors

The Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) will formally complain to the Chinese ambassador of South Korea on Wednesday of Jiangxi Infintech’s delayed payments due to local display equipment makers, TheElec learned on Tuesday.They have invited ambassador Xing Haiming for a morning conference wher

LG Electronics will begin mass production next month of its Velvet smartphone aimed at the US, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Thursday.The company will make some design changes, including adding a millimeter (mm) wave antenna, from the version it launched for South Korea in May, the

Quantum dot (QD)-based organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels will remain under 10% of the total large-sized OLED panel shipments up to 2024, a South Korean research firm said on Thursday.Earlier this month, Samsung Display announced that it has put in equipment into its Asan factory for use in

LG Display has delayed the starting of operations at its 10.5th-generation organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel line at Paju indefinitely, sources within the company told TheElec on Tuesday.The company initially planned to begin production sometime between 2022 to 2023 but this has been delayed

LG Display’s organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel for TV has received the Flicker Free Award from TUV Rheinland, the South Korean company said.This means LG’s OLED panels from 44 to 88 inches has all received the certificate from both the German standard firm as well as US counterpart Underwrit

LG Electronics has launched the LG Nanocell AI ThinQ TV, model name NANO87, in South Korea, the company said.The TV received level 1 in energy efficiency, which makes it eligible of up to 10% rebate of the purchasing price capped at 300,000 won from the Korea Energy Agency. It is the company’s secon

Samsung Display has put in the equipment necessary to produce Quantum Dot (QD) displays at its factory in South Korea.The company held a ceremony on Wednesday commemorating putting the equipment in at its plant in Asan.Last year in October, Samsung Display announced that it was exiting the Liquid Cr