SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panels are forecast to replace liquid crystal display (LCD) panels for smartphones, as Apple Inc. and other smartphone makers are moving to equip their smartphones with OLED display panels, reports showed Thursday. The global shipments of OLED display panels are expected to soar to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Corp., the holding firm of South Korea’s No. 3 conglomerate, said Tuesday that it has decided to take over a local manufacturer of special gases used in chipmaking, LCD and solar panels, as part of an effort to bolster its semiconductor material business. SK will buy a 49.1 [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest TV maker, sold more than 1,500 units of its premium SUHD TV per week in July, tripling its sales over the previous month. Samsung officials said that the SUHD TV sales increase came after it launched a series of relatively low-cost models called JS7200 earlier [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Corning Inc. plans to invest 900 billion won, or about US$835.6 million, to increase its production volume in South Korea. It will also invest another 10 billion won to establish a research and development center in Korea for the first time. Corning announced on November 4 that its CEO Wendell [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics announced on October 28 that it would drop its Plasma Display Panel(PDP) business, as rising popularity of LCD and OLED products, mainstay in global display market, makes the business of plasma TVs increasingly unviable. The main reason for LG Electronics to discontinue the production of plasma TVs [...]
DUBLIN, IRELAND, Jul. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Research and Markets (http://bit.ly/1mfzwSM) has announced the addition of the “Global Digital Signage Market – Forecast to 2020: Intense competition is likely to trigger a competitive pricing war across both hardware and software offerings” report to their offering. Digital signage refers to any electronic display that broadcasts television programming, menus, [...]