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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 …

New Innolux Fab Will be Operational This Year

by Tom Allen

Innolux is building the world’s first G8.6 fab in Taiwan. Equipment installation began in June, and production is scheduled to begin before the end of the year. Associate VP Hung Mao-sheng said that the …

SDC to Convert LCD Lines to Flexible OLED

by Tom Allen

The new CEO of Samsung Display, Kwon Oh-hyun (Samsung Electronics CEO Joins SDC), is already making changes. According to Business Korea, SDC will sell some of its G7 LCD production line at the Tangjeong …

KN2 Display Week 2016 JDI Keynote

by Steve Sechrist

Keynote address are meant to set the tone of a conference and help point in the general direction of what’s to be expected in the hurried and meeting-packed days to come. This was particularly …

BC11 Annis Sets Out Issues for OLED Production

by Bob Raikes

Charles Annis of IHS in a classic, Displaysearch-like high bandwidth presentations (which I love!), said that the company is getting more and more queries about OLEDs and this is because there is some revenue …

BC2 Hsieh Looks at Opportunities for IT Displays

by Bob Raikes

The next speaker was David Hsieh, who heads up the Display Research for IHS, and he asked why display innovation is bypassing the PC/IT space? He showed the development of the industry overall and …

TCL Plans G11 Factory in China

by Tom Allen

TCL is to build a G11 LCD TV fab in Shenzen, China. The company estimates that construction will cost $7.8 billion. It will be built for TCL subsidiary CSOT, and will produce 65″+ displays.

JDI Closes Plants in Bid to Become Less Seasonal

by Tom Allen

Japan Display has announced a series of structural reforms, as it seeks to move to a business structure that is less influenced by seasonality than its current main market (smartphone displays). Since July last …

Hendy Highlights “Race to the Bottom”

by Bob Raikes

The final speaker that we heard was Ian Hendy of Hendy Consulting which looks at the finances and development of the supply side of the display industry. His talk was entitled “Race to the …

Are Chinese Companies Gaining Control of Displays?

by Bob Raikes

Paul Gray of IHS then gave a display market overview which he called “Chinese Companies Gaining Control”. He said that the current “spreading unhappiness” is a logical consequence of the events of recent years. …

Sharp Closes Tenri in Restructure

by Tom Allen

Image credit: Nikkei,Local sources say that Sharp is to close its Tenri LCD factory in Nara Prefecture, Japan, although there will be no job losses. The move is being taken as part of a …

LGD Will Retool LCD Lines for OLED

by Tom Allen

According to Japan’s Nikkei newspaper, LG Display will invest KRW850 billion ($718 million) in the LCD production lines at its Paju factory, in order to convert them to OLED. The retooling is scheduled for …