Display Technology News Roundup 01.15.21

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Taiwan panel makers pushing into medical industry, says Digitimes Research "...AU Optronics (AUO) and Innolux are gearing up their efforts to develop display products for medical applications in response to the lingering impacts of the coronavirus pandemic..." via Digitimes

Samsung Display extends South Korea LCD production for unspecified period "Samsung Display said the length of the extension would depend on profitability considerations and market conditions. It had said in late October that it was considering a “short-term” extension." via Reuters

Prices of BOE and LG Display LCD panels soar as consumers stay home "Prices of liquid crystal display panels are soaring like never before after pandemic stay-at-home demand for personal computers and televisions rapidly brought scarcity around the world." via Nikkei Asia

Display Industry: LCD Panel Prices to Rise in 1H21 and Fall in 2H21 "In 2021, LCD panel prices are expected to climb in 1Q, remain flat in 2Q, and decline from 3Q." via Business Korea

WEDC optimistic of deal with Foxconn and continues ongoing understanding of the needs of businesses during the pandemic "Foxconn has yet to receive any tax credits from the state because it has not held up its side of the deal, according to the state. There's no evidence that screen production is underway, despite the company's promises that work would begin in the final quarter of 2020." via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Display Technology News Roundup 11.13.20

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Korean Display Makers Slowing Down Pace of Withdrawal from LCD Market "The upward trend is because the global TV sales increased after the outbreak of COVID-19 and Chinese suppliers, which increased their market share to over 50 percent this year, are no longer selling their products at dumping prices." via Business Korea

China will soon hold 70% of total LCD Panel production capacity in the world: Report "After acquiring two major LCD fabs, giants like CSOT, BOE is ready to take a leap into the LCD panel market. A report from Digitimes says China will soon outrun everyone else in the Global LCD panel production capacity." via GizmoChina

Report: LG & Samsung to launch miniLED LCD TVs in 2021 "MiniLED is widely considered a stopgap until microLED displays, in which each pixel is made up of microLEDs, can be commercialized for the mass market." via FlatpanelsHD

How quantum dots enhance the color spectrum in LCD displays "Due to the highly pure light generated by the QDs, next-generation these LCDs can produce around 25 million colors, about 50% more than a conventional LCD" via KnowTechie

Why a Biden presidency won’t end the U.S.-China trade war "Kurt Campbell, an adviser to the Biden campaign, told the Wall Street Journal that the Democratic Party largely believes Trump was right to call out China’s “predatory practices.”" via Fortune

Display Technology News Roundup 10.09.20

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BOE to lead CSOT in large-size LCD panel production capacity, says Digitimes Research "BOE Technology will lead China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) by more than 10pp in capacity share for large-size LCD panels after outbid the rival to take over the control of two fabs" via Digitimes

Display Industry: LCD Panel Price Uptrend to End in 2020 "We believe that panel prices will close this year on a decline, expecting LCD panel prices to slip from the start of the holiday shopping season in November." via BusinessKorea

LGD reportedly pushes back planned closure of 7.5G LCD fab "LG Display (LGD) reportedly has decided to push back the date of closing its 7.5G LCD fab to probably the end of 2021 instead of September 2020 as planned, due to a recent upsurge in demand for LCD TV panels, according to industry sources." via Digitimes

LG flexes its display tech with $100,000 rollable TV on sale this month "The Signature OLED R will be sold first in South Korea for a suggested price of around $100,000. Demand for the new model is expected to be limited given its cost, but LG sees it as a showcase for its display technology at a time TVs are becoming increasingly commoditized." via Nikkei

Taiwan president to pledge strong defences as China tensions rise "Democratic Taiwan, claimed by China as its own territory, has come under increasing pressure from Beijing, which has ramped up air force activity near the island in the past few weeks including crossing the Taiwan Strait’s sensitive mid line that normally serves as an unofficial buffer zone." via Reuters

Display Technology News Roundup 09.15.20

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Transparent OLEDs for Subway Train Windows "LG Display has provided the world's first transparent OLED displays for subway train windows in the Chinese cities of Beijing and Shenzhen." via Printed Electronics World

BOE Raises OLED Yield – Tries to Enter Apple’s Supply Chain "BOE will retry to supply OLED screen panels to Apple starting this month. If BOE succeeds, it will provide OLED panels for the refurbished Apple iPhone 12. Apple will complete the review by the end of the year." via GizChina

Display component suppliers Radiant, Wah Hong report strong sales for August "Backlit unit (BLU) provider Radiant Opto-Electronics and optical film maker Wah Hong Industrial have reported strong sales for August, buoyed by robust demand for IT devices including notebooks and tablets supporting stay-at-home economy." via DigiTimes

Bring True-Black and High-Fidelity Colors to Your Automotive TFT-LCD Display "Now the LEDs are uniformly distributed along the panel surface and each LED, or a small zone comprised of a few LEDs (one to four), can be individually controlled from full luminosity to full darkness. With local dimming, deeper blacks and more impressive contrast in the picture are obtained." via ElectronicDesign

China’s Paper Victory at WTO Doesn’t Dissuade Trump From Trade War "The World Trade Organization’s ruling that the U.S. violated international regulations by imposing tariffs on more than $234 billion of Chinese exports failed to dissuade Washington of its ‘America First’ trade policy and will do little to alter the current trade environment." via Bloomberg

Display Technology News Roundup 06.16.20

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Mitsubishi Electric Announces End of Production of TFT-LCD Modules "However, the company has decided to end the TFT-LCD modules production and terminate the business based on the consideration that the company is no longer able to maintain the products’ competitiveness..." via Yahoo! Finance

Russian Scientists Figured out How to Extend the Life of LCD Screens "Scientists have proposed a method that will allow diagnosing liquid crystal displays in real-time to predict the possible failure of displays. Failures in the operation of liquid crystal displays are usually associated with a change in the ionic conductivity of liquid crystals." via Science X

BOE Reportedly Failed to Deliver First Shipment of OLED Panels for 'iPhone 12' "According to Korea's DDaily, the failure was down to BOE's inability to pass OLED quality control tests." via Mac Rumors

Apple Expands Micro LED Investment in Taiwan to Avoid Project Delay Led by COVID-19 Pandemic "Apple was reported last week that it has planned to invest US$334 million for the new facility in Taiwan, located in the Longtan section of Hsinchu Science Park. The new factory is believed to focus on Micro LED and Mini LED technologies which Apple aims to apply in its new products." via LEDInside

Despite the pandemic, the trade war is still on "Now, new reports say the Chinese government has ordered a stop to imports of U.S. agriculture, which the U.S. and China agreed to as part of the “phase one” trade deal back in January." via Marketplace

Display Technology News Roundup 04.10.20

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Samsung’s exit from LCDs opens up Chinese consolidation "These changes in the LCD display market are likely to accompany consolidation among players in China, possibly benefiting China Star, which could acquire SDC Suzhou and CHOT, while BOE acquires CEC Panda. With such moves, China Star would control 23% of the market while BOE would control 34%, Young predicted." via FierceElectronics

Apple Buys Stake in Japan Display’s LCD Hakusan Plant "Japan Display will likely use the proceeds from selling the LCD equipment to repay loans. The company took loans to fund the construction of the Hakusan plant, which cost $1.5 billion." via Market Realist

Corning winds down manufacturing at Shizuoka LCD glass substrate facility "Corning has disclosed that its LCD glass substrate facility in Shizuoka, Japan will stop manufacturing operations by year-end 2020 to ensure the company's operations are aligned with the display industry's current business environment." via DigiTimes

"Flexible temporary electronic displays may one day make it possible to sport a glowing tattoo or check a reading, like that of a stopwatch, directly on the skin. In its current form, however, this technology generally depends on plastic." via Science Daily

Innolux says production, delivery not affected despite hacking "It maintained the part of the operating systems that had been affected would be fixed during the day without hindering its production and delivery." via DigiTimes

DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY NEWS ROUNDUP 06.28.19

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Apple Grants $100 Million Lifeline to Ailing Japan Display "The U.S. company is stepping in after Taiwan’s TPK Holding Co. withdrew from a $1.1 billion rescue plan for the Japanese firm, the person said, asking not to be identified discussing a private deal." via Bloomberg

BOE developed LCD displays with Optical Fingerprint support; mass production starts this year "The leading Chinese display manufacturer, BOE Display Technology has announced that it has successfully developed an optical fingerprint technology-supporting LCD display." via GizChina.com

Key Technologies and Advanced Applications of Micro LED Technology at Micro LEDforum 2019 "Plessey, who won the CES 2019 Innovation Award with its Micro LED AR smart glasses, is also joining Micro LEDforum 2019 to introduce its monolithic Micro LED with GaN-on-Si technology." via LED Inside

This MicroLED Display Is Smaller Than a Bug "A Silicon Valley-based startup has recently emerged from stealth mode to reveal what it claims is the smallest, most pixel-dense dynamic display ever built. Mojo Vision’s display is just 0.48 millimeters across, but it has about 300 times as many pixels per square inch as a typical smartphone display." via IEEE Spectrum

Stocks are climbing after Trump says there's 'a very good chance' of progress on trade talks with China "President Donald Trump and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are set to meet on Saturday in a high-stakes encounter that could determine whether the US follows through on its threat to extend tariffs to virtually all Chinese goods." via Business Insider

DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY NEWS ROUNDUP 01.17.19

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Apple iPhone 11 will take on Samsung S10 with a notch-free OLED screen "Crucial to this announcement about the under-screen sensors is the fact they only work with OLED screens." via T3

Everything you need to know about the foldable Royole FlexPai phone "...the FlexPai has been available in Beijing since October, and was set to start shipping to developers in the US and UK back in December. The world's first foldable phone didn't just beat Samsung to CES, it beat them to market." via c|net

Rohinni and BOE to Form Joint Venture for Micro LED-based Backlights "Micro and Mini LED specialist Rohinni announced that it will be forming a joint venture with Chinese panel producer BOE. The collaboration will focus on the production of micro LED lighting solutions for display backlights." via LED Inside

LG Plans to Sell TVs That Roll Up Like Posters in 2019 "LG is counting on so-called “rollable” and OLED televisions to revive a consumer electronics business that’s grappling with price declines and stiffening Chinese competition." via Bloomberg

Korean Research Team Develops New Graphene Quantum Dot Fabrication Technology "Professor Shin Hyun-seok of the Department of Natural Science at UNIST said on Jan. 16 that his team succeeded in developing a two-dimensional planar complex manufacturing technology that regularly arranges graphene quantum dots in a single layer of hexagonal boron nitride..." via Business Korea

DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY NEWS ROUNDUP 08.14.18

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Apple Soon Could Get Yet Another OLED Supplier "BOE Technology, a Chinese display manufacturer, is trying to make the cut as an OLED display vendor to Apple...the earliest BOE could supply the OLED screens would be from 2020..." via The Motley Fool

New TFT technology could replace LTPS for OLED, LCD, and solar devices "Blue Wave Semiconductor ... , has patented new thin-film-transistor (TFT) technology that will increase efficiency and luminance while decreasing cost for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), active-matrix OLEDs (AMOLEDs), and liquid-crystal device (LCD)" via LaserFocusWorld

Samsung to resume production at A4 OLED plant "...Samsung has recently inked a supply deal with a new Chinese client for its on-screen touch display, called Y-OCTA that has thus far been supplied to Samsung Electronics only. The monthly production capacity of the A4 is 30,000 units of the sixth-generation OLED panels. " via The Investor (The Korea Herald)

There may soon be a third major player in the OLED screen business "...Sharp announced recently that it started mass production of OLED displays for smartphones. For the time being the production capacity will be only for its own Aquos smartphones..." via Phone Arena

US Tariffs Adds Financial Pressure to Foreign Manufacturers in China, Pushing Them to Leave "'...Companies are saying that the scare of these tariffs has decreased the incentives to manufacture in China,' Resnick said. He added that many companies have been leaving China anyway, as labor costs for lower-skill labor are currently cheaper in places like India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Philippines, and Mexico." via The Epoch Times

DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY NEWS ROUNDUP 03.16.18

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China's BOE to spend big on display panels with state backing "BOE Technology Group is embarking on a 96.5 billion yuan ($15.2 billion) production expansion, but local governments will cover the lion's share of the cost..." via Nikkei Asian Review

OLED: Nanometer-thin layer improves efficiency "This new approach leads to a higher energy efficiency and can be used in almost any organic semiconductor element..." via ChemEurope.com

Samsung reportedly to invest in PlayNitride "Samsung Electroncis, in line with its plan to launch micro LED TVs in August 2018, will reportedly invest in Taiwan-based micro LED technology developer PlayNitride..." via DIGITIMES Inc.

Plastic Logic has sample 500ppi display "Plastic Logic says it has made a 155% improvement in the display density of its plastic EPDs and has produced a sample display with a pixel density of 500ppi..." via Electronics Weekly

E-Ink Color E-Paper is delayed until 2019 "...ACEP will not be ready for vendors to purchase until sometime in 2019..." via Good e-Reader

DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY NEWS ROUNDUP 02.23.18

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Samsung to slash OLED panel production "Earlier reports suggested that Samsung Electronics (OTC:SSNLF) was looking for new OLED panel customers after Apple slashed production for its iPhone X, but the company is now cutting its own output for Q1..." via Seeking Alpha

Apple developing 4 next-generation iPhone projects, says Digitimes Research "Apple originally intended to push the two OLED iPhones and the 6.0- to 6.1-inch LCD iPhone, but has recently started leaning toward the combination of the two LCD models plus the 6.4- to 6.5-inch OLED iPhone, abandoning the 6.0- to 6.1-inch OLED model..." via DigiTimes

Samsung-LG TV Competition Expected to Shift from QLED vs. OLED to Micro-LED "LG Electronics Vice Chairman Cho Seong-jin visited the company’s TV business unit ... and told it to prepare micro-LED TVs larger than Samsung Electronics’ The Wall TV by September..." via Business Korea

AU Optronics' profit plunges with LCD prices "...China's BOE Technology Group fired up the world's first production line for 10.5-generation liquid crystal display panels in December, putting further pricing pressure on AUO..." via Nikkei

Your Guide to Television’s Quantum-Dot Future "As a result of the pull on the standards front and the push by quantum-dot researchers and TV display manufacturers, we are about to see a revolution in television displays..." via IEEE Spectrum

DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY NEWS ROUNDUP 12.21.17

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Cash-starved Japan Display seeks fund injection "Cash-strapped Japan Display is discussing an investment of more than 200 billion yen (S$2.4 billion) from three Chinese panel makers, including BOE Technology Group..." via The Straits Times

Samsung Display to supply 180-200m OLED panels for iPhone X next year "That’s around four times the amount it supplied this year, and translates into roughly US$19.8 to US$22 billion revenue..." via The Investor

Weak display panel price weighing on LG Display "...growing concerns over the industry's imbalance between supply and demand led to price cuts in display screens..." via The Korea Times

Apple’s 2017 iPhone Models Give Taiwan’s Weary Tech Sector a Reprieve Production of smartphone displays also shows pressure from China. Taiwanese display makers AU Optronics and Innolux ranked among IDC’s top five firms for market share in the third quarter. But BOE Technology of Beijing reached the top spot with a 23.5 percent market share..." via Voice of America (VOA)

DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY NEWS ROUNDUP 12.07.17

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Sharp to seek all-Japan OLED alliance to counter South Korea's Samsung, LG "TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Sharp Corp (6753.T) will ask the government to help it form an alliance with rival Japan Display Inc (6740.T) in OLED technology to better compete with South Korean makers..." via Reuters

OLED vs QLED: the battle of the TV tech titans "But does QLED represent the current peak of TV technology – as many people appear to think – or does it just get more of an advertising push?" via TechRadar

Nano Cell technology ups the ante for LCD TVs "LG’s Nano Cell technology is built on a breakthrough innovation called Quantum dot, which was first seen in TVs a few years ago..." via TECHGOONDU

BOE Pushing to Supply Its Flexible OLEDs to Apple "BOE, which is the biggest display manufacturer in China, is looking to supply its flexible OLEDs to Apple" via The Electronic Times

Japan Display affiliate becomes nation's first to commercially sell OLED screens "An affiliate of Japan Display Inc (6740.T) sold its inaugural batch of OLED screens on Tuesday, becoming the first Japanese company to commercialize an advanced technology that is currently dominated by South Korean rivals" via Reuters