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 [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co., a major display panel maker in South Korea, is on track to produce its next-generation displays in the second half of the year, industry insiders said Tuesday. Samsung Display is set to release pilot products of the quantum-dot (QD) display for TVs and monitors this month [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Global monitor panel shipments declined in the first quarter of the year, a report showed Wednesday, mainly due to Samsung Display Co.’s exit from the monitor LCD display manufacturing business and a shortage of semiconductors. The worldwide monitor panel shipments fell 8.6 percent on-quarter to 39.9 million units in [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two largest display panel makers — Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co. — are extending their liquid crystal display (LCD) production, industry insiders said Friday, as panel prices continue to rise on robust demand. Samsung Display CEO Choi Joo-sun recently told employees that the company is [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co., the country’s two largest display makers, on Monday said they will unveil their latest innovations at the world’s leading exhibition for display panels to be held virtually this week. The two companies will take part in the Display Week 2021, organized by [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co. dominated the global smartphone display panel market last year, a report showed Friday, as it posted record revenue amid the pandemic. The affiliate of Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest smartphone producer, represented half of the worldwide smartphone panel market last year in terms of revenue, [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co., a major display panel maker in South Korea, is likely to receive compensation from Apple Inc. over a shortfall in OLED panel orders, industry insiders said Tuesday. Samsung Display’s worldwide small OLED shipments in January dropped 9 percent month-to-month to 45 million units, according to market [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co., the world’s largest smartphone panel supplier, said Tuesday it expects to ship more low-power OLED displays to global smartphone manufacturers amid rising demand from Chinese players. Samsung Display said Oppo, which has risen to become China’s largest smartphone manufacturer, uses its OLED panel with adaptive frequency [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co., a major display maker in South Korea, said Tuesday it targets to expand its presence in the gaming display market with its OLED panels for smartphones. Samsung Display said its 6.78-inch OLED panel is used in Asus’ Republic of Gamers (ROG) Phone 5 launched last week, [...]