SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung SDI Co. said Thursday its third-quarter earnings slid 2.5 percent on-year amid decreased demand for energy storage system (ESS) products and pouch battery cells used in smartphones. Consolidated net profit came to 622.4 billion won (US$459.3 million) in the July-September period, compared with 638.2 billion won from a [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s leading auto parts maker, has unveiled a demonstration of the world’s first rollable display designed for automobiles. The demonstration of the display, held on Monday at the Media Tech Day at the company’s R&D center in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, showed the display slowly rising [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has announced the installation of a new cutting-edge device at an upcoming exhibition held at the National Museum of Korea. This device incorporates organic light-emitting diode (OLED)-based exhibition technology and will be part of a trial. The device will be placed at [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The head-on crash between South Korea and China in the display market is evolving into legal disputes. According to the website of the Intermediate People’s Court of Chongqing Municipality, China-based BOE Technology Group Co. recently filed several lawsuits against the Chinese units of Samsung Electronics Co. and Samsung Display [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s biggest auto parts maker, announced Sunday that it had developed the world’s first swivel display for automobiles, a 34-inch display that can move vertically. The 34-inch curved screen has a 6K OLED panel, and can move vertically in three ways. It maximizes visibility for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Display Co. is expected to make up one-third of global borderless PC monitor panel production next year, a report showed Friday, leading the fast-growing market. LG Display’s borderless monitor display production capacity is projected to increase from 33.06 million units this year to 34.2 million units in 2021, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s chip and display industries, the backbone of Asia’s No. 4 economy, have remained intact since Tokyo’s export curbs against the Asian neighbor, Seoul’s trade ministry said Sunday. The country’s top four tech giants — Samsung Electronics Co., Samsung Display Co., SK hynix Inc. and LG Display Co. [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chip and display makers are expected to embrace yet more uncertainty from Japan’s restriction of exports of key materials for their production amid diplomatic rows between the two nations, market watchers said Monday. The Japanese government said earlier in the day that it will strengthen regulations on [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will push to put cameras and sensors beneath the screens of smartphones to create “perfect full-screen” devices. The South Korean tech giant said its Infinity-O Display, used in Galaxy S10, is a “milestone” for its display technology, although going forward it will showcase [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to adopt a full-screen display for the upcoming flagship Galaxy S10 smartphone that will come with a “punch hole” at the top for the camera, industry sources said Tuesday. According to the sources, including popular tech blogger Evan Blass, Samsung’s Galaxy S10 smartphone is [...]