Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday that it will launch 21 models in its new Neo QLED TV series.This is three more than the 18 models rival LG Electronics plans to launch in its OLED TV series.Neo QLED TVs are liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs that use MiniLEDs as their backlighting. It is an upgra

LG Electronics said on Monday that it will begin global launches of its 2021-model OLED TVs.The TVs will come in six series with 18 models in total. Eleven models launching in South Korea will be over 70-inch in size.The six series are G, C, B, A, R and Z series.G series is what LG calls OLED Galler

The global TV market grew slightly in 2020, but LG Electronics saw its sales and shipment decline.Market research firm Omdia said on Wednesday that 225.35 million TVs were shipped last year, a rise of 1.1% from 2019.The COVID-19 pandemic affected sales in the first half but the market recovered in t

Samsung Electronics is planning to reduce the production steps in its MicroLED TV production to lower their prices, TheElec has learned.The company will apply RGB(red, green and blue) one chip transfer technology during production.Samsung currently transfer R, G and B chips separately. Instead, they

The recent hike in prices of helium gas is likely to negatively affect the profitability of semiconductor companies.According to the Korea Customs Service on Friday, helium gas import price was US$82,200 per a metric tonne in 2020, a 44% rise from 2019.Helium gas are used as coolers during semicondu

Hansol Technics said on Thursday that it was expanding its second factory at Vietnam due to large increases in orders for liquid crystal display (LCD) modules and power boards.The company will give 27.6 billion won in guaranteed loans to Hansol Electronics Vietnam Hochiminhcity, its factory subsidia

Solus Advanced Materials will expand supply of materials for OLED TVs as well as other materials besides those that emit light, the company said in its fourth quarter conference call.The OLED TV likely refers to Samsung Display’s quantum dot (QD)-OLED display panels. Solus is currently developing ad

Chips&Media will launch its new high-resolution video IP product called Wave6 Series in March, TheElec has learned.The first product in the series, called Wave627 (encoder IP), will support AV1 and VVC(H.266) standards.The company will launch Wave637 (codec IP) in August and Wave617 (decoder IP) wit

Optical film company Shinwha Intertek has manufactured and supplied optical films for display to Japanese tech giant Sony.This will be its first supply to Sony. It has previously supplied its films to Samsung Electronics and TCL.Shinwha Intertek said on Tuesday that it held a ceremony to commemorate

South Korean display equipment manufacturer SFA was developing technologies for the production for next-generation display panels, the company CEO said.SFA was actively developing transfer, bonding, inspection and repair technologies as competition between MiniLED, quantum dot organic light emitting

Samsung Electronics said it will apply AMD FreeSync Premium Pro to all of its Neo QLED TVs.The freesync feature is used to reduce delays and screen distortions in TVs while playing games.AMD FreeSync Premium Pro adds high dynamic range to the freesync feature for better contrast ratios.Samsung said

BOE is planning to commercially launch a MicroOLED display in the second half of 2021, TheElec has learned.The panel will be applied to products that support augmented reality and virtual reality viewing.BOE had been developing MicroOLED since 2018 through Kunming BOE Display Technology, its joint v

Samsung Electronics’ injunction lawsuit filed to the US International Trade Commission against Ericsson is based on four patents related to semiconductor manufacturing, TheElec has found.Samsung’s import ban filed on February 4 is based on four of its patents, which it claims Ericsson has infringed

The South Korean government has approved Samsung Display’s sales of its liquid crystal display (LCD) factory at Suzhou, China to TCL (CSOT), TheElec has learned.Samsung and TCL agreed to the sales last year.The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy held a committee meeting on Thursday to approve th

Applied Materials CEO Gary Dickerson warned of the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) to the environment at his keynote speech during Semicon Korea on Friday.Dickerson said if AI data centers are built with the current technology, data centers will be consuming 15% of global power by 2025.This c

Prices of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels will remain high up to the second quarter of 2021 due to the recent fire yet AGC’s glass substrate manufacturing plant in South Korea, market research firms say.Prior to the fire, research firms pointed that price increases of LCD will make a downturn in

LG Electronics said on Friday that it has posted 63.26 trillion won in sales and 3.19 trillion won in operating income for the entire year of 2020.It is a rise of 1.5% and 31.1%, respectively, on-year.Stay-at-home and remote work trends led demand for home appliances, LG said. The home appliance bus

Corning said it was expanding production at its Gen 10.5 (2,940x3,370) liquid crystal display (LCD) glass substrate factories in China.The company said demand from TV and IT products continues to be solid, with demand increases for large-sized TV remaining robust. Demand for 75-inch TV grew over 60%

Samsung Display said on Thursday that it will develop new display form factors such as rollable and slidable to cement in leadership in 2021.Company senior vice president Choi Kwon-young also said at Samsung Electronics’ fourth quarter conference call that the firm will expand its leadership in the

South Korean start-up Vtouch is aiming to commercialize digital signage this year, company co-CEO Kim Seok-joong says.Vtouch is a developer of virtual touch technology. The technology uses the camera on displays to recognize the eyes and hand tips of users. The used the idea that the hand pointing a