SEOUL, Jul. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) screens are expected to rise as mainstream panels for the global smartphone industry within four years, industry watchers said Thursday, beating thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal displays (TFT-LCD). According to the data compiled by industry tracker TrendForce, AMOLED panels took up 23.8 percent of the global market [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean exports and output of organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panels are expected to rise next year, thanks to a strong demand for smartphones and high-definition televisions, a report showed Monday. Citing data from market researcher IHS, the report by the Institute for Information & Communications Technology [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Display Co., the display-making unit of Samsung Group, saw its third-quarter sales of flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) screens exceed US$1 billion, according to industry data Thursday. In terms of sales of small and medium-sized flexible OLED screens for smartphones and other wearable gadgets, Samsung Display took [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Display Co., an affiliate of Samsung Electronics Co., has registered for a patent on technology to develop bendable displays in the United States, industry sources said Tuesday, implying a possible launch of foldable smartphones sometime soon. The panel-making affiliate of the South Korean tech giant filed a patent [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Display Co. said Wednesday that it has formed an alliance with its sister company Samsung Electronics, and Chinese TV and panel manufacturers to further cooperate on expanding the curved panel industry. The agreement was made at a forum held by Samsung Display and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The ultra high-definition (UHD) TV panel market is forecast to grow more than twofold this year, with South Korean TV panel makers expected to take up a majority share, a report showed Friday. The UHD TV panel market, also known as the 4K market, will likely grow to a size [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung employees and the head of an LG Display subcontractor denied allegations that they illegally traded LG’s OLED technology behind its back. Four executives and employers of Samsung Display and the head of the subcontractor were indicted last month on charges of exchanging information related to LG’s secret technology through emails. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Display Co., a South Korean display maker, has added more Chinese tech firms to its client list to sell them smartphone AMOLEDs, a move seen as a strategy to rely less on its parent company, Samsung Electronics Co., which is suffering weak sales, industry sources said Tuesday. The [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display and LG Display challenge each other at the 14th International Meeting on Information Display from October 14 to 16. Samsung’s keywords are “curved” and “flexible” while LG focuses on “Organic Light Emitting Diodes” and “touch” at the exhibition. In order to boast its technological prowess for curved and [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Display will hold a 2014 Future Display Idea contest named “Imagine Your Display.” Anyone who attends universities or graduate schools with groundbreaking ideas can apply for the contest until November 9. A first prize winner and two runner-ups will be announced at the beginning of December, winning 3 [...]