LG Display will introduce its full lineup of OLED TV panels loaded with EX technology at IFA 2022, which will kick off in Berlin, Germany on Sept. 2.The company will set up an exhibition booth at Messe Berlin, the venue of IFA 2022, to showcase its advanced OLED TV technology, including a 97-inch sc
The author is an analyst of KB Securities. He can be reached at jeff.kim@kbfg.com. -- Ed. Lower target price to KRW130,000 but maintain BUY; expect solid H&A, sluggish HE We lower our 12m TP for LGE from KRW160,000 to KRW130,000, as we revise down 2022E/2023E NP (attributable to controlling interest
Samsung Electronics, Apple, Meta and Microsoft are competing for a share of the burgeoning metaverse device market, which is expected to grow 80 percent annually.Samsung Electronics will introduce an augmented reality (AR) device that will be loaded with hologram technology. The company has been pre
China’s BOE is going through a disruption in production of OLED panels for Apple’s iPhone. The Chinese display maker failed to secure a stable supply of semiconductors essential to panel production, such as display driving ICs (DDIs).BOE is experiencing difficulties in producing OLEDs for the iPhone
The Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Research Foundation of Korea gave a prize to Sungkyunkwan University chemical engineering professor Lee Jun-yeop, who has developed a technique for blue LED efficiency enhancement.Nowadays, OLED technology is being continuously developed as an advance
LG Display will supply OLED panels based on low-temperature poly-crystalline oxide (LTPO) technology to Apple for the iPhone 14 series, which will be launched in the second half of 2022, industry sources said on Feb. 8.LTPO is a next-generation thin film transistor (TFT). A TFT serves as an electric
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced on Jan. 19 that their research team has developed an innovative display material capable of enhancing the luminous efficiency of OLED and QLED display.The tea
LG Display announced on Dec. 27 that it will unveil diverse applications of transparent OLED displays at CES 2022 Online Exhibition Hall.The Korean display giant will unveil a "transparent show window," which is created by putting four 55-inch transparent OLED displays together and is placed outside
Samsung Electronics will unveil its first OLED TVs at CES 2022, the world's largest IT fair to be held in January next year. The company will use Samsung Display's Quantum Dot OLED (QD-OLED) displays, not LG Display's White OLED (WOLED) displays which currently monopolize the OLED TV mar
Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics will adopt OLED displays for their key products, including smartphones and TVs, next year.Samsung Electronics, the world's No. 1 TV producer, is planning to unveil QD OLED TVs at CES 2022, which will be held in Las Vegas in January 2022. It will use QD OLED
LG Display started the 2021 Tech Forum on Oct. 12 with experts from 23 major domestic and foreign partners, including Merck, UDC and Dongjin Semichem, attending.At the tech forum, which marks the 10th anniversary this year, the participating companies will share their visions and R&D strategies and
China's BOE has reportedly received conditional approval for the supply of its OLED displays for Apple's new smartphone iPhone 13. The Chinese display maker has long failed to satisfy finicky Apple but now has grabbed a golden opportunity. Analysts say that it may pose a threat to Samsung Di
Korea's OLED industry creates 27 trillion won worth of production and 100,000 jobs a year through OLED exports, a report from the National Assembly Budget Policy Office says.The report, released on Sept. 13, urged the government to come up with measures to help Korean OLED producers fend off cha
Optical semiconductor manufacturer Seoul Viosys announced on Aug. 4 that its Violeds sterilization technology is capable of removing 99.3 percent and 99.9999 percent of the COVID-19 delta variant on a surface in one and five seconds, respectively.The company announced in an online press conference t
Seoul Viosys has developed a method by which airborne spread of the COVID-19 delta variant can be curbed. The company announced on July 15 that it recently conducted surface sterilization experiments with Korea University and confirmed that its Violeds technology showed a sterilization effect of 99.
The author is an analyst of KB Securities. He can be reached at jeff.kim@kbfg.com. -- Ed. Prices of LCD panels to diverge in 2H21— According to Display Supply Chain Consultants (Jul 13), the price of 32” LCD TV panels should fall 23% from its Dec peak (price of 75” LCD TV panels to fall 6%). We fore
LG Magna e-Powertrain, a joint venture between LG Electronics of Korea and Magna International of Canada, has jumped into the electric vehicle motor powertrain market, which is dominated by German and Japanese companies.LG Electronics will separate part of the green business of its VS Business Divis
LG Electronics announced on June 30 that it is set to release the LG QNED MiniLED TV, a premium LCD TV, in the global market. The new product’s name has “QNED,” a term that is used for a next-generation product under development by Samsung Display. This is why some market watchers say that LG Electr
The author is an analyst of KB Securities. He can be reached at jeff.kim@kbfg.com. -- Ed. Maintain BUY and target price of KRW37,000; all OLED divisions to generate profit in 2H21 We maintain BUY on LGD and our TP of KRW37,000, as we expect all three OLED divisions (large, small-/mid-sized and autom
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at kyeongkeun.kang@nhqv.com. -- Ed. LB Lusem is a global top-three DDI (COF) packaging company. DDI demand is set to increase as display trends change. Following its incorporation into the LB Group, the firm has reported stabl