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LG Expands High-End With ‘Dual Premium’ Strategy

by Tom Allen

LG will expand its OLED TV lineup from five models to 10 this year, the company has announced. As well as OLED models, ‘Prime UHD’ (quantum dot) LCD TVs will be produced, as part …

LG Will Supply OLEDs to China and Japan

by Tom Allen

According to Reuters, LG has grown tired of waiting for its OLED TVs to be adopted, and will work with Chinese and Japanese companies to make OLED TVs more mainstream. The news is not …

LG Secures OLED Wins

by Tom Allen

LG’s OLED TVs have been recognised for their display quality in the USA and Europe. Digital Trends gave a five-star rating to the company’s 65EC9700 TV and chose it as the editor’s choice. In …

IDC: Record Smartphones Cannot Keep European Mobiles From Stagnation

by Tom Allen

Total mobile shipments fell 5.2% YoY in Western Europe throughout 2014 – the second consecutive year that the market has shrunk. Total shipments reached 174.1 million units. Feature phones continued to plummet, with shipments …

LG Display Suspected as Sole Apple Watch Supplier

by Tom Allen

JJ Park, an analyst with JP Morgan, claims that LG Display is the sole supplier of the plastic OLED screen used on the Apple Watch. Park believes that as many as 29 million Apple …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Small Medium Panel Supply| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Samsung and LG Still at War Over OLED Secrets

by Helen Vince

Korea’s Suwon District Public Prosecutor’s Office has indicted four Samsung Display officials for violation of the unfair competition prevention and trade secret protection act. The CEO of one of LG Display’s subcontractors was also …

LGD Succeeds in Doubling Flexible Capacity

by Tom Allen

Universal Display has revealed some details about LG Display’s flexible OLED capacity. During a conference call with investors, UDC said that LGD’s current monthly capacity is 14,000 substrates from its G4.5 fab – more …

LGD’s OLED TV Production Expansion to Cost $915 million

by Helen Vince

Following LG Display’s (LGD) recent announcement that it planned to expand production capacity at its 8G OLED plant (LG Display Aiming to Make 600,000 OLED TV panels), sources in Korea have estimated that the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Fabs| Production Capacity| Vol 22 - Issue 07

Panels Move to Be Largest Factor in Set Prices

by Tom Allen

Changing panel prices are becoming the largest swing factor to TV makers’ profitability, says David Hsieh of DisplaySearch (http://tinyurl.com/ofwz9e6). The LCD module represents between 70% and 80% of the cost of a set, and …

LG Display Aiming to Make 600,000 OLED TV panels

by Bob Raikes

LG Display says it is aiming to produce 600,000 OLED TV panels in 2015, predominantly in 55″ sizes but also 65″ and 77″. LGD’s current monthly capacity is 14,000 Gen-8 substrates, which is expected …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED TVs| Vol 22 - Issue 06

Planar Debuts Large-Format Transparent OLED

by Tom Allen

Planar Displays has announced that it will show a 55″ transparent OLED prototype at ISE. The company has built part of its business proposition around transparent displays, but until this point all units have …

Technologies For Flexible AMOLEDs

by Norbert Hildebrand

A new article published by SID – Information Display discusses the challenges and barriers for creating the flexible AMOLED used in LG’s G Flex smartphone. The article describes the solutions LG developed to make …

Tags:AMOLED| Flexible Displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 06