BERLIN, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Consumers who want the best picture quality TVs available now will look to QLED models by Samsung Electronics and OLED TVs by LG Electronics, and they are likely to see 8K next to a price tag of several thousand dollars. 8K refers to the highest-resolution standard for content creation, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s largest chemical company, said Wednesday it will cooperate with Universal Display Corp. (UDC), a U.S.-based display materials maker, to develop an advanced organic light-emitting diode (OLED) component. LG Chem said it signed a strategic partnership with UDC to co-develop an upgraded emissive layer, a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Display Co. said Friday it has completed the construction of a new OLED factory in China to start mass production of large screens for premium televisions. LG Display has invested about 5 trillion won (US$4.2 billion) to build the Guangzhou factory for the production of organic light-emitting diode [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co. has trimmed down production of liquid crystal displays (LCD) in response to worsening profits, seen as shifting its focus to a new type of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel, industry officials said Wednesday. The display making subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co. has cut LCD production at [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s OLED panel exports to Japan more than doubled to hit a record high last month, data showed Wednesday, bucking the trend of weakening global demand for displays. South Korea’s shipments of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels to Japan totaled US$13.2 million in June, skyrocketing 129.2 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Display Co. said Tuesday it will invest 3 trillion won (US$2.6 billion) in an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) facility in South Korea to expand its production capacity for premium panels. The Korean panel maker has spent 4.6 trillion won in the OLED factory in Paju, north of Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Display Co. said Tuesday that operations at its OLED factory in China will be put into full swing next month to ramp up its production capacity of premium panels in the key market. LG Display has invested about 5 trillion won (US$4.2 billion) to build the Guangzhou factory [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s leading chemicals maker, said Tuesday that it has acquired a key technology and related assets from global high-tech chemical firm DuPont for next-generation soluble organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Under the deal, LG Chem acquired DuPont’s technologies and patents for soluble OLEDs as well as [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea’s tech titans launch their latest and greatest TVs, they are, once again, in fierce competition to promote their own cutting-edge screen technologies and expand their market presence. Consumers who want the best picture quality TVs available will look to OLED TVs by LG Electronics Inc. and [...]
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 [...]