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LG Display

LG Display 19-inch Flexible e-Paper

2010.01.15

LARGEST: LG Display announced a newspaper-sized e-paper. The 19-inch e-paper is 250 x 400mm in size and is about the size of an A3-sized newspaper and just as thin and light at 0.3mm and 130g. LG Display uses a metal foil instead of a typical glass substrate allowing the company’s e-paper to be flexible with [...]

LG Display Invests in Hydis

2009.12.28

LG Display (LGD) will be investing in Hydis, a Prime View International (PVI) subsidiary, by purchasing US$18.3M in zero coupon bonds and $12.2M in bonds with a 4% coupon rate. LGD and Hydis will also share certain patents via a cross-licensing agreement. Source: DIGITIMES

LG Display World’s Thinnest 42-inch LCD Panel

2009.12.21

LG Display’s 42-inch LCD panel is just 2.6-mm thick (0.1 inch) and sports an edge-lit LED backlight, 120Hz, 1080p and weighs a little under 8.8 pounds. Imagine a large LCD TV that is almost flush with the wall… tantalizing. Of course we’ll need the other boxes to become very thin very fast to complement these [...]

Kodak Sells OLED Business to LG

2009.12.04

Kodak’s “fundamental” portfolio of OLED IPs will certainly help LG in its efforts to continue developing and commercializing OLED products. LG currently has the largest OLED TV on the market today with its 15-inch OLED that it released in South Korea in November. Source: Business Wire via Engadget

LG Display 1080p 3D LCD

2009.12.03

LG Display announced the commercial availability of its 23-inch 3D LCD sporting a 1920 x 1080 pixel format. The company’s “high performance 3D exclusive controller” processes more than twice the image data compared to other 3D LCDs. Up to now LG Display adopted its proprietary copper bus line only to its 30-inch 2560 x 1600 [...]

South Korean Government to Approve China LCD Plant Investment

2009.11.25

Samsung and LG Display have plans to build TFT LCD manufacturing plants in China. The South Korean government worried that key engineering know-how would leak to Chinese competitors. Now the government seems very likely to approve of Samsung and LG Display’s plans. The Chinese government is also eager to have both companies set up shop [...]

HannStar and LG Display Patent Cross License

2009.11.25

On November 24, 2009, HannStar and LG Display signed a patent cross-license agreement covering TFT LCD technology that is effective retroactively to January 1, 2009 and last until the end of 2013. HannStar is one of few LCD manufacturers that make use of IPS technology to produce large-size TFT LCD panels. The other two are [...]

L&T Display Technology: TPV Technology and LG Display Sign Joint Venture Agreement

2009.11.10

TPV Technology and LG Display has entered a joint venture agreement establishing L&T Display Technology for TVs, located in Xiamen, and monitors, located in Fujian. The Xiamen-based JV will focus on manufacturing and selling LCD TV modules and TVs. The Fujian-based JV will concentrate on producing and selling LCD monitors, multi-function monitors, all-in-one PCs and [...]

iDP (Internal DisplayPort) Interface Standard Proposed by STMicroelectronics and LG Display

2009.11.08

LVDS to iDP: The current internal interface standard on LCDs is LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signaling) but STMicroelectronics and LG Display want it to change to iDP (Internal DisplayPort) and have submitted their proposal to the VESA (Video Electronics Standard Association) TV Panel Task Group.
High Bandwidth & Simpler: iDP is based on DisplayPort that enables [...]

Large-Area TFT LCD Shipments Increase 2% M/M in September

2009.10.26

Oversupply? According to DisplaySearch, September 2009 large-area TFT LCD panel shipments increased 2% M/M and 25% Y/Y to 52M units and setting a new monthly record. Revenues increased 6% M/M and 15% Y/Y to US$6.8 billion. LCD monitor panel shipments declined 8% M/M but increased 2% Y/Y to 16.8M units while LCD TV panel shipments [...]


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