Samsung Electronics has started an augmented reality (AR) HoloLens project with Microsoft, TheElec has learned.The project, which will last two years, started sometime in the summer this year, sources said. HoloLens is Microsoft’s AR display device model.Samsung had formed a taskforce for the projec

Samsung Display is planning to add three more foldable module lines at its factory in Vietnam by next year to expand its foldable panel production capacity, TheElec has learned.Once the addition is complete, the number of company’s foldable module lines will increase from seven to 10.This will expan

Inkjet printing firm Unijet has supplied inkjet equipment for microOLED to China’s Sidtek, TheElec has learned.The equipment will be used by the Chinese company in its production of microOLED displays.The South Korean company had supplied inkjet equipment for thin-film encapsulation (TFE) for MicroO

Samsung Electronics had recently sent requests to Samsung Display and AUO to develop a 12.7-inch thin-film transistor (TFT) to apply on its MicroLED TVs, TheElec has learned.Specifically, the South Korean tech giant has requested that the display panel makers develop low-temperature polycrystalline

Companies from both India and China have shown interest in buying Samsung Display’s liquid crystal display (LCD) equipment at its now-defunct L8-1 LCD production line, TheElec has learned.L8-1 line was previously used by the South Korean display panel maker to manufacture panels for TV and IT produc

South Korean display equipment makers are expected to face a difficult year in terms of earnings in 2022 due to conservative spending expected from global display panel makers.As of November, orders for OLED panel production equipment were lower than it was over the same time period in 2020.Last yea

Chinese display giant BOE was in the process of converting its three factories __ B7, B11 and B12 __ to manufacture smartphone flexible OLED panels for Apple, analyst firm UBI Research has claimed.Because of this, BOE will likely overtake LG Display as the larger OLED supplier for iPhones by 2023, U

China’s TCL has unveiled a 65-inch 8K resolution OLED panel prototype at its own conference in China on Tuesday.The prototype was developed by its display panel subsidiary CSOT, together with JOLED, and manufactured using the inkjet technology, TCL said at its conference dubbed 2021 TCL Huaxing Glob

BOE has started operations of its third flexible OLED line, TheElec has learned.The Chinese display giant’s B12 line at Chongqing, China has started production, people familiar with the matter said.B12 line consists of three stages: the first stage has started production. The second stage will start

Apple has begun talks with its South Korean panel suppliers on applying OLED panels to its MacBook line, TheElec has learned.The iPhone maker has initially planned to launch its first MacBook with an OLED panel in 2025 but this plan is likely to be postponed, people familiar with the matter said.App

Samsung Display has placed orders for equipment to its suppliers that it plans to use for its new mobile OLED production line, which will likely be called A4E, TheElec has learned.The new production line will use Gen 6 (1500x1850mm) substrates to manufacture small OLED panels that will be used in sm

MiniLED TV panels will become even more affordable than their OLED counterparts in the years to come, according to analyst firm Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC).For a 65-inch UHD TV panel, MiniLED is 2% cheaper compared to OLED as of this year.But the former will be 15% cheaper is 2025, DSCC

The market for display panels below 9-inches in size was worth US$13.41 billion in the second quarter this year, an increase of 15% year-on-year, according to analyst firm Omdia.Samsung Display saw sales increase to US4.34 billion during the quarter, an increase of 50% year-on-year.Omdia said the co

LG Display has begun development of its own under display camera technology (UDC), TheElec has learned.The South Korean display panel maker was also currently developing hole-in display technology, sources said.Hole-in display punches a hole on the top side of OLED panel so that the front camera mod

BOE is expected to supply over 15 million units of OLED panels to Apple for iPhones, TheElec has learned.The Chinese display giant is currently supplying OLED panels for iPhone 12 __ the company will likely receive the final approval from Apple to supply OLED panels for the recently launched iPhone

BOE, CSOT and Samsung Display were all developing the OLED panel that Samsung Electronics plans to use on its Galaxy A73 smartphone launching next year, TheElec has learned.The mobile business of Samsung Electronics will evaluate the OLED panels made by these three display panel makers and decide ho

Samsung Electronics was developing the technology to keep the distance between pixels to early-0.5mm for MicroLED TVs that are under 100-inch in size.This has allowed the company to reduce the distance between pixels by over 10% __ the distance between pixels for its 110-inch MicroLED TV was 0.63mm.

OLED material firm P&H Tech has signed a long-term contract with US’ Dupont to supply them with long life OLED materials.The deal is worth 7.1 billion won and lasts until 2028, the South Korean company said.It signed the deal with Dupont’s subsidiary in South Korea.P&H Tech will receive the 7.1 bill

LG Display has begun the development of 12.9-inch OLED iPad, TheElec has learned.As Samsung Display recently scrapped the development of a 10.86-inch OLED iPad it was proceeding with Apple, LG Display will likely be able to enter the IT OLED market at a level playing field with its South Korean comp

Apple and Samsung Display have canceled their joint project to develop a 10.86-inch OLED iPad, TheElec has learned.The tablet was originally slated to launch in 2022 and would have been Cupertino’s first iPad to sport an OLED panel.The project was stopped due to either the single stack structure of