SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s display industry is facing strong headwinds due to the global economic slump, but automotive organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels, for which demand is surging, are emerging as a silver lining. This year’s global shipments of automotive displays are expected to exceed 200 million units, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A new OLED panel manufactured by South Korean display maker Samsung Display Co. has received the industry’s first global certification for its ultra-high brightness of 2,000 nits. One nit is equal to the luminance of one candle per square meter. The display maker announced on Thursday that its smartphone [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co., a major display panel maker in South Korea, is visiting university campuses across the country using trucks loaded with next-generation foldable products. To attract distinguished university students, the company is hosting recruitment roadshows on a rotation basis at eight universities across the country. The company’s Display [...]
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, [...]