Samsung Electronics reported its financial results for Q1 2021. The company's revenues was 65.4 trillion Won (around $58.7 billion USD). Operating profit increased 4% from the past quarter to $8.4 billion, as Samsung enjoyed strong sales of phones and consumer electronics, which offset slower sales of displays and semiconductors.

The past quarter saw a fall in the revenues of Samsung's display business, due to weak seasonality of mobile products and a shortage of chips.Compared to Q1 2020, however, earnings improved due to increased adoption of OLED displays in smartphones.

China's Everdisplay started to produce a new 1.6" 360x320 AMOLED display, and these are now available in the OLED Marketplace. These small OLED displays are suitable for many applications, including wearables.

If you are interested in this display for your device or new project, contact us now, or check out more information over at the OLED Marketplace. We also list many other EDO AMOLED displays, including foldable displays and laptop displays.

LG Display announced its financial results for Q1 2021. The company reported sales of $6.2 billion, an operating income of $469.5 million and net profit of $238 million. Sales were lower (by 8%) compared to Q4 2020, but higher by 46% from Q4 2020. LGD remained profitable for the third consecutive quarter.

LG Display announced its financial results for Q1 2021. The company reported sales of $6.2 billow, an operating income of $469.5 million and net profit of $238 million. Sales were lower (by 8%) compared to Q4 2020, but higher by 46% from Q4 2020. LGD remained profitable for the third consecutive quarter.

An unmanned coffee shop in Singapore, called Crown Coffee, installed LG Electronics transparent OLED signage. Customers at the shop can view promotional videos or details on their orders, while a robot makes the coffee which can be viewed through the display:

These are LG's 55-inch Full HD panels, that feature a transparency of 38%.

Japan-based Nippon Shokubai announced that its OLED lighting panels will be used in an upcoming textile exhibition in Japan. The company's fiber-type OLED lighting panels will be woven into a fabric, as can be seen in the video below:

Nippon Shokubai is developing OLED lighting panels under the iOLED brand. Its panels are very flexible and are only 0.07 mm thick. The company developed two panel types: a red panel which features a brightness of 5,000 cd/m², EQE of 29% and >10,000 LT50 (@ 1,000 cd/m²) and a green panel that features a brightness of 7,000 cd/m², EQE of 23% and >10,000 LT50 (@ 1,000 cd/m²) .

According to a report from Korea, Samsung Display started producing OLED display modules at its new plant in India's Noida city Uttar Pradesh state.

The modules that will be produced at Noida will be supplied to Samsung Electronics, to be used in smartphones sold in India.

Universal Display and Visionox announced that the companies extended their long-term OLED material supply and license agreements. The new agreement runs for five years - that's the only details of the new agreement that has been disclosed.

The original agreement between Visionox and UDC was signed in 2018.

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