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Guangzhou OLED Update

by Ken Werner

In 2017, LG Display (LGD) announced it would build a Gen 8.5 OLED fab in Guangzhou, China, with production of TV-sized panels to begin October 2019. Initial production was to be 60,000 substrates per …

Tags:China| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Fabs

What Does the Korean Display Industry Do Next?

by Ken Werner

Japan’s once-unconquerable liquid-crystal display-panel industry has long-since migrated to Taiwan and then South Korea. And South Korea, after many years of great success (if not always great profits) is now dumping it. The problem …

Tags:Flexible Displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Samsung Display

An Interview with Keyssa’s Steve Venuti: What is a Wireless Connector?

by Ken Werner

LG Electronics’ first dual-screen phone — the LG V50 ThinQ Dual Screen introduced in the first half of 2019 — featured a mechanical configuration the company has since used on two subsequent dual-screen phones. …

Tags:Interfaces| Wireless

With Ultra-Thin Glass, Schott Leads the Way

by Ken Werner

Now that consumer electronics companies have decided the world is hungry for smartphones that fold, display makers have developed an equal appetite for ultra-thin glass (UTG). Since it is glass, UTG has admirable optical …

Tags:Corning| Flexible Displays| Glass| Materials

The Plan: Be Kind to the Planet, Reward Your Partners, Make Money

by Ken Werner

One evening at CES this past January, I walked up to E Ink’s suite for an update from Chief Strategy Officer Paul Apen. “I have something special for you,” Apen had said earlier, and …

Tags:CES 2020| E Ink| Retail| Supply Chain

Display Week Rescheduled to a Seemingly Risky August 2nd to 7th

by Ken Werner

As many of you know by now, the Society for Information Display’s Display Week has been rescheduled from early June in San Francisco to August 2 to 7 in San Jose. I was curious …

Tags:SID Display Week 2020

What Now?

by Ken Werner

No, this is not a question of cosmic proportions. I’m not, for example, asking how we should tackle the current Covid 19 pandemic. Rather, I’m asking a much narrower display-related question. Last week Bob …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs| QD OLEDs| Samsung

Leftovers from CES 2020

by Ken Werner

CES seems a long time ago, an artifact from an age in which we still went to international trade shows like, well, like CES. But I still have some leftover notes. These are not …

Cynora Introduces A More Efficient Blue OLED Emitter

by Ken Werner

Last week Cynora, the German developer of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) OLED emitters, announced its first commercial product, “a fluorescent blue emitter that promises to significantly improve the efficiency of Organic Light Emitting …

Tags:InkJet Deposition| Kateeva| OLED Materials| Reorganisation & Restructuring| TADF

Short Takes from CES

by Ken Werner

Bob Raikes has been written several Display Dailies on what he saw at CES. Now it’s my turn. The following are not the big stories that everybody has written about, but they are things …

Wuhan Lockdown Closes Display Companies

by Ken Werner

As the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic Wuhan, an industrial powerhouse and the capital of Hubei Province, is locked down. The Hubei Provincial Government has ordered most enterprises to resume work no earlier than …

Tags:China| Health and Safety| Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs

The Phone Folds; The Display Doesn’t

by Ken Werner

The use case for phones with foldable displays remains unconvincing, but that didn’t stop vendors both actual and prospective from showing a growing number of foldable products at CES 2020. Vendors have a powerful …

Tags:Foldable Devices| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLEDs| Smartphones