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LG Display’s Guangzhou OLED Panel Plant to Start Mass-Production in Earnest

by Bob Raikes

LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, held a ceremony to announce the beginning of mass-production in earnest at its 8.5th generation (2,200mm x 2,500mm) OLED panel production plant in Guangzhou, China. …

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

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

TCL and JOLED Connect to Make IJP OLED TV Panels

by Barry Young

TCL’s CSoT and JOLED formed an alliance to “start joint-development of large-sized OLEDs for TV”, printed with RGB pixels. CSoT has a Gen 6 OLED fab in Wuhan for small/medium displays and has prototyped …

Tags:China| CSOT| InkJet Deposition| Investment| JOLED

The Recovery Begins in the Large-Sized TFT Display Market

by Artem Alekseenko

Following a dismal first quarter roiled by the impact of COVID-19, the large-area thin-film transistor (TFT) display market has started to rebound in the second quarter, paving a path for shipments to rise by …

Tags:China| Covid-19| TFT

More Fab Moves in China (Covid Brings Harsh Reality to Display Industry Part 4 of 2!!)

by Bob Raikes

I had got to Part 3 of my two part series on the developments in China with the changes in the industry and thought I was done. However, I got some updated information that …

Tags:China| Large LCD Supply| Reorganisation & Restructuring

Financial Sanity in China (Covid Brings Harsh Reality to Display Industry Part 3 of 2!)

by Bob Raikes

This is the third of my two part (!) series on the state of play going forward in the global LCD business and the focus this time is on what may happen in the …

Tags:China| Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs

Covid-19 Forces Sanity on the LCD Industry (Covid Brings Harsh Reality to Display Industry Part 2)

by Bob Raikes

In my last Display Daily (Covid Brings Harsh Reality to Display Industry (Part 1) I reported on what has happened to the display application and supply side. As we saw, after the last two …

Tags:China| Large LCD Supply

Imagination Deal Under UK Government Scrutiny – Canyon Bridge Violated the Deal

by Jon Peddie

When Canyon Bridge Partners, which is owned by China Reforma Chinese state-owned investment fund, sought to buy Imagination Technologies in 2017, Theresa May’s government approved the acquisition on the basis that Canyon Bridge was …

Tags:China| Financial Data| Imagination Tech| Mergers & Acquisitions| Semiconductor Industry

…and then China got Sick

by Steve Sechrist

It was the 19th century Habsburg era diplomat Prince Klemens von Metternich who once said, “When France sneezes, Europe catches a cold”. Well, it’s a different viral strain, but that’s pretty much what seems …

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

Korean OLED Manufacturers Have Their Ups and Downs

by Ken Werner

LG Display (LGD) has released an earnings reports that is disheartening, at least it is if you work for LGD and not for Samsung Display or BOE. But LGD is also experiencing serious teething …

In the USA, Are Chinese TVs Off the Table?

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, the ongoing trade spat between the US and China, the world’s largest communist nation (yep – wonder why we don’t often see this in print?) has resulted in a …

Tags:China| Display Supply & Demand| Large LCD Supply| Market Data