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AUO Starts G6 LTPS LCD Production in Kunshan

by Bob Raikes

AUO has started volume production at its new G6 LTPS fab in Kunshan, in Eastern China (AUO Nears Kunshan Opening). The company has invested $1.58 billion and the fab has a monthly capacity of …

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AUO’s G6 LTPS TFT-LCD Fab in Kunshan Announces Its Grand Opening with Successful Mass Production

by Isaac Oburu

AU Optronics Corp. (“AUO” or the “Company”) today announced the grand opening of its G6 LTPS (Low Temperature Poly-silicon) TFT-LCD Fab in Kunshan and success in entering mass production, making it the fastest LTPS …

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Display Panel Makers Increase Fab Utilization Rate to 90 Percent in Q4, 2016, IHS Markit Says

by Milos Pavlovic

The overall utilization rate at fabrication plants (fabs) used for display panel production is expected to reach 90 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016, up 7 percentage points from the same period in …

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Innolux 8.6G To Start in January

by Bob Raikes

Innolux’s VP and TV Product Manager, Hung Mao-Sheng said at investor’s conference in Taiwan that the company’s G8.6 fab which has a capacity of 45,000 substrates monthly, will start production in Q1 by making …

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LCD to OLED Shift Accelerates for Koreans

by Bob Raikes

IHS Markit has confirmed the switch in strategy from LCD to OLED by the Korean panel makers because of growing capacity and price competition from China. As we have previously reported, Samsung has already …

Applied Materials Boosts Fab Ramp Up

by Milos Pavlovic

Applied Materials said that it has a new high-resolution incline e-beam review (EBR) system that can increase the speed at which makers of OLED and UHD LCDs can find and solve defect issues to …

TCL Joins CSOT on 11G TFT-LCD/AMOLED Fab

by Milos Pavlovic

The Securities Times in China reported that TCL will join with CSOT to establish an 11G LCD/AMOLED fab in Shenzen and with the Shanghai City Government. The total investment plan is estimated at $6.96 …

Fab Utilisation to Pass 90% For First Time in Six Quarters

by Tom Allen

IHS has forecast that the utilisation rate of LCD panel fabs will rise by 3.2 percentage points in Q3’16, topping out at 90.2%. This would mark the first time since Q1’15 that utilisation has …

AUO Nears Kunshan Opening

by Tom Allen

AUO held a ceremony at its G6 (1500×1850 mm) LTPS fab in Kunshan, China, this week to celebrate the first 5.5″ 1920 x 1080 LTPS LCD panel produced there. The Kunshan fab is expected …

Vendors Shutting Down a-Si TFT LCD Fabs

by Ross Young

Samsung Display, one of the leading amorphous silicon (a-Si) TFT LCD manufacturers for the past 20 years, is shutting down its first G7 line, Line 7-1, from as early as the end of July …

Samsung Continues OLED Transition

by Tom Allen

According to Hangkyung News of Korea, Samsung is planning to close down more of its LCD manufacturing lines, replacing them with OLED facilities. Specifically, the source names Samsung’s L7 plant in Asan, S.Korea. This …

JDI Begins Chinese Withdrawal

by Tom Allen

The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, a Japanese-language paper, has published a story stating that Japan Display is to sell an LCD facility to China’s Jiangxi Holitech Technology. Second-hand sources say that the plant, in southern …