Editor’s note: Apple hit a market cap of $1 trillion on August 2. How’d they do that? While everybody else in the electronics industry is talking about this extraordinary milestone, Apple is staying mum when it comes to those who supply chips and components to Apple. As part of our Special Project on ‘Apple’s $1 Trillion Climb’…
With the construction of several new Generation 10.5 fabs underway, and the first mass production shipments expected in the first quarter of 2018, prices for large flat panel displays (FPDs) are expected to drop as production capacity surpasses market demand. IHS Markit reports that several suppliers – BOE, China Star, LG Display and Foxconn – are…
Due to rising demand for OLED displays in smartphones and high-end flat panel TVs, panel manufacturers are making bigger investments in new OLED display fab construction, according to market research firm IHS Markit. This investment is expected to increase global production capacity of AMOLED panels — including both red-green-blue (RGB) OLED and white OLED (WOLED)…
A “deadly accident” at LG Display’s (LGD) P8-1 panel fab in Paju, South Korea on June 24 will cause a significant disruption to its production of large LCD panels in the third quarter of 2017, according to WitsView, a division of TrendForce. WitsView reports that “Gen-8.5 has been shut down for repair and investigation by the…
Seoul, Korea – LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that it will invest KRW1.84 trillion to begin building a new panel plant in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, Korea, with production expected to commence in the first half of 2018. The company decided on the new plant, known as P10, because of anticipated…
One of the issues holding widespread OLED – organic light emitting diode—adoption is limitation and cost of materials. OLED displays can be constructed by spraying ink-like materials onto a substrate—even flexible materials such as plastic. Starting in the second half of 2015, the overall consumption of active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) materials will surge according…
New Tripoli, Pa. – The TFT-LCD equipment market has been on a roller coaster ride for the past ten years, as Japanese companies dominate the industry, according to the report LCD Market: Technology Directions and Market Analysis, recently published by The Information Network (www.theinformationnet.com), a New Tripoli, PA-based market research company. AKT, a subsidiary of Applied Materials, was the…
El Segundo, Calif. — The market for large-sized liquid-crystal display (LCD) panels is set for a seasonal drop in the first quarter after record shipments for TV and tablet panels in December, according to a new report from IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS). Despite record shipments, overall December shipments rose slightly from 81.6 million in November to…