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BOE Plans to Raise $3B for New Fabs

by Artem Alekseenko

DSSC revealed a lot of details in their blog after BOE announced plans to raise CNY 20 Billion ($3.1B) to fund ongoing fab projects after its stock reached a new high of CNY 7.49. …

Tags:BOE| Investment

Stratacache Pursuing GaN on Silicon in Oregon

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Hat-tip to Sixteen-Nine.net for an update on Stratache and its ambitions in microLED. The firm has said that it plans to build a complete fab from epi deposition on 300mm silicon …

Tags:Investment| MicroLED| Stratacache

DKE Goes “Beyond Expectation” to Invest in Plastic Logic Display Technology

by Artem Alekseenko

Plastic Logic, a leader in the design and manufacture of flexible, glass-free electrophoretic displays (EPDs), has announced a significant investment in its business from DKE Displays, a China-based company specialising in the production of …

Tags:EPD (Electrophoretic)| Investment| Plastic Logic

BOE’s 2nd Gen 10.5 LCD factory to reach full capacity in 1st half

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Elec reports, quoting local Chinese media, that BOE has secured $3 billion in funding to expand its B12 production line for OLEDs for smartphones in Chongqing. The company currently operations …

Tags:BOE| Investment| Large LCD Supply| OLED Fabs| Small Medium LCDs

iQiyi Gets Funds to Develop VR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Caixin in China reported that iQiyi Smart, the VR-centred arm of iQiyi Inc, which Caixin describes as an ‘online video giant’ (Wikipedia reports that it has 500 million active monthly users …

Tags:China| Game Playing| Investment| Virtual Reality

Oxford spin-out Bodle secures Series A funding extension

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bodle Technologies has received funding through an extension to its £6m ($8m) Series A funding round. (Bodle Moves Onto the Next Stage) What We Think Bodle is still in the early …

Tags:Investment| Reflective Display

Turkey’s Arçelik targets Asian growth with Hitachi deal

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reports that Arçelik of Turkey has taken a 60% share in Hitachi’s overseas home appliances business for $300 million. The firm will use the investment to drive its business for …

Tags:Beko| Hitachi| Investment

Samsung’s Suzhou LCD Factory Sale to TCL Facing Delay

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec, quoting Chinese sources, reports that Samsung’s potential sale of its LCD plant in Suzhou to TCL could be delayed because of the time taken by the South Korean government …

Tags:China| Investment| LCD Fabs| TCL

Royole to build a $2.4 billion flexible OLED fab in Qingdao

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Although we haven’t been able to pin down an original source, we have seen various reports that Royole has announced a $2.4 billion flexible OLED fab to be built in Qingdao, …

Tags:China| Flexible Displays| Investment| OLED Fabs