SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co. will put more resources into developing and producing organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels for notebooks and PCs, its chief executive said Wednesday. “Since the COVID-19 pandemic, a wide variety of information technology products has been launched, and we see a great potential for OLED panels in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the sluggish growth of the global display market, OLED sales remained solid in the second quarter of this year, justifying the shift that Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co., South Korea’s two largest display makers, have made towards OLED-centered ventures. Global OLED panel revenue grew by 12 [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co. has acquired German display startup Cynora GmbH for about US$300 million to advance technology for foldable smartphone screens, a report said Wednesday. Bloomberg reported that the South Korean firm purchased Cynora’s “intellectual property and technology” on organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels used in foldable smartphones. Cynora’s [...]
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co., the display panel-making arm of Samsung Group, said Tuesday it will roll out QD OLED TV displays in two sizes as well as a monitor display in the first half of the year, ending industry speculations regarding the timing of the commercial debut of the company’s [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co., a major display panel maker in South Korea, dominated the global smartphone panel market in the first half of the year, a report showed Tuesday, though its market share declined slightly from a year earlier. Samsung Display, an affiliate of top smartphone maker Samsung Electronics Co., [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co. said Thursday it has begun mass-production of laptop OLED screens boasting 90Hz refresh rate as the South Korean display maker eyes to beef up presence in the OLED panel market. Samsung Display, an affiliate of Samsung Electronics Co., said its 90Hz refresh rate OLED panels are [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two largest display makers — Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co. — on Tuesday said they will showcase their latest innovations at the country’s leading exhibition for display panels this week. The two companies will take part in the International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) 2021, [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The labor union of Samsung Display Co. has reached a wage agreement with management and will end its two-week partial strike soon, union officials said Monday. Six union representatives went on strike on June 21, demanding a 6.8 percent hike in base pay, in the first-ever walkout at the [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co., a major display panel maker in South Korea, said Thursday it will launch an in-house vaccination program next month to better fight the novel coronavirus pandemic. Samsung Display workers will be administered Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine at its in-house medical clinics from July 27 in cooperation with [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Representatives of the labor union at Samsung Display Co. on Monday launched their first-ever strike after failing to reach a compromise on a wage hike, and the walkout marks the first after group chief Lee Jae-yong promised to abolish the conglomerate’s “no labor union” policy. Six representatives of Samsung [...]