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Samsung Electronics Co, the world’s largest maker of liquid-crystal display televisions, should be banned from selling certain LCD TVs and computer monitors in the US after losing a patent case filed by Sharp Corp, a US trade agency said.

WASINGTON: Samsung Electronics Co, the world���s largest maker of liquid-crystal display televisions, should be banned from selling certain LCD TVs and computer monitors in the US after losing a patent case filed by Sharp Corp, a US trade agency said.

Yesterday���s decision from the US International Trade Commission in Washington now heads to President Barack Obama, who can overturn the ban if he finds it���s contrary to the public interest. Samsung also asked an appeals court that specializes in patent law to put the ban on hold while a challenge to the underlying patent case is pending.

Samsung, which can sell LCD-TVs that don���t use Sharp inventions, said the ITC ruling doesn���t have any impact on its business because it���s already using technology that bypasses the Japanese company���s patents, according to spokesman James Chung.

���There will be no problems for Samsung with products that have workaround technology,��� said Park Young, an analyst at Woori Investment & Securities Co in Seoul. The possibility of an actual ban may be low because it would be counter to the public interest for US consumers, according to Park.

US LCD-TV shipments by all companies are expected to rise 7.3 percent to 8 million units in the fourth quarter, according to market research firm ISuppli Corp. of El Segundo, California. Samsung had 19.9 percent of the US market in the second quarter, the most recent period for which figures are available, ISuppli said. Vizio Inc had 20.5 percent to maintain its top spot and Sharp was seventh with 5 percent, according to the researcher.

The order prevents Samsung from selling any LCD TVs or monitors that have inventions covered by four patents owned by Osaka, Japan-based Sharp. The patents are for a way to control the alignment of the liquid crystals to improve brightness and response speed; an LCD with a wider viewing angle; and two inventions related to techniques to reduce flickering in the display.

The commission previously upheld an ITC judge���s finding that Samsung infringed the Sharp patents. The commission said yesterday that the public-interest factors ���do not preclude issuance��� of an order banning imports or sales of imported products.

���We believe that ITC���s ruling has made it clear that ITC has consistently supported Sharp���s claim that LCD products of Samsung are violating Sharp���s patents,��� said Christopher Loncto, a spokesman for Sharp.

���We are fully committed to honor our responsibilities to our business partners and are taking appropriate action to meet the market demand for Samsung LCD panels and products without any interruption,��� she said by telephone today.

The ITC also has issued exclusion orders on TVs made by both Vizio and Sharp. Sharp is not allowed to import Sharp LCD televisions, including ones sold under the Aquos name, that infringe a Samsung patent for an LCD with a wider viewing angle.

Vizio, based in Irvine, California, is under investigation by the ITC as to whether it is violating an order that precludes it from importing LCD-TVs that infringe a patent owned by Japan���s Funai Electric Co. for a method that lets digital TV receivers identify programs, broadcast channels and program descriptions to viewers. Vizio contends it has worked around the Funai patent.

According to Bloomberg, which obtained court papers filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, Sharp and Samsung paid $105 million and $82.7 million, respectively, for their alleged involvement in driving up prices for LCDs sold between 1999 and 2006. Chimei Innolux paid $78 million as part of the class action lawsuit"s settlement.

"They colluded on minimum prices of panels, pricing policies on each product type, timing of price increases, and a ban on cash rebates," the country"s Fair Trade Commission said at the time. "They were aware that such action was illegal, and kept their gatherings and information secret."

The alleged price fixing impacted several markets and a host of companies, including Dell, Motorola, and Apple. In 2009, AT&T and Nokia sued Samsung, LG Display, and other panel makers, alleging that the companies artificially inflated prices on LCD panels. Dell followed with a lawsuit of its own last year, taking aim at Sharp, Hitachi, Toshiba, and others, accusing the firms of collusion on LCD panel pricing.

Samsung Display will stop producing LCD panels by the end of the year. The display maker currently runs two LCD production lines in South Korea and two in China, according to Reuters. Samsung tells The Verge that the decision will accelerate the company’s move towards quantum dot displays, while ZDNetreports that its future quantum dot TVs will use OLED rather than LCD panels.

The decision comes as LCD panel prices are said to be falling worldwide. Last year, Nikkei reported that Chinese competitors are ramping up production of LCD screens, even as demand for TVs weakens globally. Samsung Display isn’t the only manufacturer to have closed down LCD production lines. LG Display announced it would be ending LCD production in South Korea by the end of the 2020 as well.

Last October Samsung Display announced a five-year 13.1 trillion won (around $10.7 billion) investment in quantum dot technology for its upcoming TVs, as it shifts production away from LCDs. However, Samsung’s existing quantum dot or QLED TVs still use LCD panels behind their quantum dot layer. Samsung is also working on developing self-emissive quantum-dot diodes, which would remove the need for a separate layer.

Samsung’s investment in OLED TVs has also been reported by The Elec. The company is no stranger to OLED technology for handhelds, but it exited the large OLED panel market half a decade ago, allowing rival LG Display to dominate ever since.

Although Samsung Display says that it will be able to continue supplying its existing LCD orders through the end of the year, there are questions about what Samsung Electronics, the largest TV manufacturer in the world, will use in its LCD TVs going forward. Samsung told The Vergethat it does not expect the shutdown to affect its LCD-based QLED TV lineup. So for the near-term, nothing changes.

One alternative is that Samsung buys its LCD panels from suppliers like TCL-owned CSOT and AUO, which already supply panels for Samsung TVs. Last year The Elec reported that Samsung could close all its South Korean LCD production lines, and make up the difference with panels bought from Chinese manufacturers like CSOT, which Samsung Display has invested in.

Samsung Electronics has filed a compensation suit against three Japanese liquid crystal diode (LCD) panel manufacturers, in response to their decision to halt supplies to the company, according to Japanese media and industry sources here, Sunday.

The compensation suit comes a month after Sharp, which was acquired by Taiwan-based electronics supplier Hon Hai, decided to stop supplying LCD panels to Samsung, in an apparent move to revive Sharp"s sagging TV business and take advantage of increasing demand for the panels.

This may not cause significant damage to Samsung because Sharp"s panels make up less than 10 percent of Samsung"s TV products. But the unexpected contract withdrawal may leave Samsung in a dilemma, with Hon Hai expressing confidence in expanding its TV business in Southeast Asia ― including China.

Sharp"s latest move comes amid soaring demand for LCD TV panels. Due to the strong panel demand, Samsung Electronics is not seen as a core profit booster for Sharp. In addition, with Hon Hai showing signs of launching a new TV brand soon, the relationship between Samsung and Sharp has not been on good terms in recent months.

In September, Samsung Electronics sold its 0.7 percent stake, or 358 million shares, in Sharp. At that time, Samsung dispelled rumors that the move came amid an uncertain business partnership, and said the decision had nothing to do with LCD supplies from the panel manufacturer. But the latest lawsuit appears to show otherwise.

Sharp previously unveiled a plan to double its LCD TV sales to 10 million in 2018. A joint venture between Hon Hai and Sharp is also considering building an LCD panel facility in China with an investment of about $8.8 billion.

AU Optronics, a Taiwanese LCD panel manufacturer, is seeking a court injunction to ban the sale of LCD panels by LG Display. This sounds like bad news for the second largest LCD panel maker in the world, but do keep in mind the official source is a press release by AUO, so it may be prudent to wait for LG to respond before drawing any final conclusions.

On December 2006, LG Display sued AUO for $690,000,000 USD for violating its patents. Since that time, AUO, the third largest maker of LCDs, fired back with their very own intellectual property claims. LG was counter-sued for infringing four AU Optronics patents related to the materials and processes used in manufacturing display panels. On February 16th, AUO won that counter claim. In the press release, the company claims it has acted to seek an injunction which will halt LG"s worldwide LCD sales, pending judicial approval.

LG produces about one quarter of all LCD panels sold worldwide. The implications of their display subsidiary being even temporarily "shutdown" are serious, but there is no word on exactly what portion of their business could be affected. Although actual LG-branded displays may not make up 25% of the market, companies like HP, Dell, Asustek and Apple depend on LG Display to supply many of their screens. This could no doubt have far-reaching effects on laptops, tablets, desktop displays, televisions, phones and more amid very high demand.

Press Coverage on Ban: According to the Daily Express, "A 42in plasma television uses over twice as much power as a traditional television set. Some of the larger models can take as much as electricity to run a fridge freezer".

LA Times reports that "(California) State regulators are getting ready to curb the growing power gluttony of TV sets by drafting the nation"s first rules requiring retailers to sell only the most energy-efficient models...". The regulation is expected to pass in mid-2009. According to LA Times, "During a peak viewing time when most sets are on, such as the Super Bowl, TVs in the (California) state collectively suck up the equivalent of 40% of the power generated by the San Onofre nuclear power station running at full capacity. Televisions account for about 10% of the average Californian"s monthly household electricity bill". Further the article goes to describe how Plasma screens are more power hungry than LCD screens.

Power Usage Comparison of Plasma vs LCD: We looked at various professional large screen displays that businesses would buy, to see if what is being reported is correct. Below we analyze some of the Plasma professional display brands against the Sharp LCD screens to understand how plasma screens compares with LCD screens. Our finding was that Plasma displays consumed almost twice as much power per display than LCD display of similar size.

? 65" Sharp LCD Display: A 65inch profession LCD display by Sharp (PN-S655), which is also a high definition display but using LCD technology, consumes 480W of power, according to the company display brochure.

? 50" Sony Plasma Display: The largest professional plasma display offered by Sony is 50inches (FWD-50PX3/S). The 50inch plasma display uses 440W of power compared to Sharp 46 inch LCD display using 312W of power.

Do your own analysis but it does seem that Plasma displays consume more power than LCD displays. By placing restrictions on display companies EU and California governments hope to encourage display companies to produce more efficient displays and TV screens. With the growth of flat-screen TVs, this is bound to make a difference. As consumers and the world gets more "green" conscious, it makes sense for business to be aware about recent trends as this will save them more money in the long run.

WitsView, a division ofTrendForce, says that demand for LTPS devices were previously expected to grow steadily in 2019 and cause utilization for LTPS production lines to climb. But due to the effects of the Huawei ban, LTPS area produced is expected to shrink starting from 3Q, with the annual area produced expected to fall by about 7.2% compared to 2018, arriving at just 8.3 million square-meters. This is the first time in recent years that LTPS area faces the risk of decline. However, it is worth observing whether panel demand will recover swiftly as the US relaxes for now the sales ban on Huawei in the wake of G20.

TrendForce explains that as LTPS production capacity ceases to expand, panel suppliers are fighting for orders from clients, leading to intense competition in panel prices. Furthermore, LTPS panels with narrower bezels, energy-saving and other specifications performed better in the market and thus increase customers" acceptance of LTPS panels. It was originally forecast that, as more and more brands increasingly adopt LTPS devices, the share of these devices in the smartphone market will rise from 37% last year to 42.1% this year. But the Huawei ban near the end of May introduced some changes to the supply-demand situation of LTPS panels.

TrendForce points out that Huawei"s phone shipments for 2019 were originally feared to become impacted by the US ban, impacting orders along the panel supply chain. This moved panel suppliers to adjust utilization from June onwards. Since this series of order adjustments was caused by a sudden event, panel manufacturers probably won"t be able to completely transfer production capacity to other applications or clients in the short-term. After the decline of the South China “white box” market, most customer brands also don"t have the ability to absorb the additional production capacity of panel manufacturers. The expected share of LTPS devices in the global smartphone market is therefore cut down to 40.6%, which also implies a spike in LTPS panel oversupply pressure in the short term.

Originally, panel manufacturers and phone customer brands had to take some time to adjust their supply/demand situation under the restrictions of the ban. TrendForce therefore predicted that as phone brands began to set their annual goals for 2020 entering 4Q19, total utilization for LTPS production lines may get a chance to recover. But after the relaxing of the Huawei ban, it remains to be observed whether utilization may experience a full recovery by mid-3Q or the end of 3Q.

Meanwhile, another risk limiting the future development of LTPS panels is AMOLED panel supply. Production capacity for AMOLED panels will increase as China"s panel manufacturers actively increase production capacities overall, and phone customer brands will also increase their demand for AMOLED panels. This will no doubt crowd out LTPS panels to some extent in the future, and as soon as LTPS panels lose the support of demand from large-scale customers such as Huawei, they will necessarily expand their market reach, either moving towards mid-range or low-end phones and eroding the shares of a-Si devices, or accelerating the turn towards non-phone applications.

By Lee Kyung-minSamsung Display has decided to close its liquid-crystal display (LCD) business in June, hobbled by a declining global competitive edge due to cheaper products made by its Chinese and Taiwanese counterparts, according to the industry, Sunday. No investment plan details have since been announced.The decision by the display affiliate of Samsung Group came six months sooner than expected, due in large part to rapid losses from falling LCD prices.According to Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC), a U.S. market research firm, the average price index of LCD panels, measured against 100 in January 2014, will fall to 36.6 in September of this year. The figure has dropped farther from the record low of 41.5 in April of this year, and 58 percent lower than the record high of 87 in June 2021.Also factored in was Samsung Electronics, the largest buyer of Samsung Display products, partnering with overseas LCD suppliers, including BOE Technology Group, a Chinese electronic components producer and AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), a Taiwanese LCD panel maker.The display affiliate initially sought to close its LCD business in late 2020, but the plan was delayed at the request of its parent company, Samsung Electronics, due to a sudden spike in LCD prices amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Samsung Display will no longer produce LCDs used for large TV screens and focus instead on manufacturing organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and quantum dot (QD) displays. The employees of the LCD businesses are expected to be transferred to the QD businesses.The display affiliate was first formed in 1991, as an LCD business arm under Samsung Electronics. It formally launched in 2012 as Samsung Display and has since merged with three local and Japanese makers of active matrix organic light-emitting diodes (AMOLED), for the production of advanced types of displays.Samsung Display was unavailable for comment.

Samsung Electronics has filed a compensation suit against three Japanese liquid crystal diode (LCD) panel manufacturers, in response to their decision to halt supplies to the company, according to Japanese media and industry sources here, Sunday.

The compensation suit comes a month after Sharp, which was acquired by Taiwan-based electronics supplier Hon Hai, decided to stop supplying LCD panels to Samsung, in an apparent move to revive Sharp"s sagging TV business and take advantage of increasing demand for the panels.

This may not cause significant damage to Samsung because Sharp"s panels make up less than 10 percent of Samsung"s TV products. But the unexpected contract withdrawal may leave Samsung in a dilemma, with Hon Hai expressing confidence in expanding its TV business in Southeast Asia ― including China.

Sharp"s latest move comes amid soaring demand for LCD TV panels. Due to the strong panel demand, Samsung Electronics is not seen as a core profit booster for Sharp. In addition, with Hon Hai showing signs of launching a new TV brand soon, the relationship between Samsung and Sharp has not been on good terms in recent months.

In September, Samsung Electronics sold its 0.7 percent stake, or 358 million shares, in Sharp. At that time, Samsung dispelled rumors that the move came amid an uncertain business partnership, and said the decision had nothing to do with LCD supplies from the panel manufacturer. But the latest lawsuit appears to show otherwise.

Sharp previously unveiled a plan to double its LCD TV sales to 10 million in 2018. A joint venture between Hon Hai and Sharp is also considering building an LCD panel facility in China with an investment of about $8.8 billion.

Flat-panel displays are thin panels of glass or plastic used for electronically displaying text, images, or video. Liquid crystal displays (LCD), OLED (organic light emitting diode) and microLED displays are not quite the same; since LCD uses a liquid crystal that reacts to an electric current blocking light or allowing it to pass through the panel, whereas OLED/microLED displays consist of electroluminescent organic/inorganic materials that generate light when a current is passed through the material. LCD, OLED and microLED displays are driven using LTPS, IGZO, LTPO, and A-Si TFT transistor technologies as their backplane using ITO to supply current to the transistors and in turn to the liquid crystal or electroluminescent material. Segment and passive OLED and LCD displays do not use a backplane but use indium tin oxide (ITO), a transparent conductive material, to pass current to the electroluminescent material or liquid crystal. In LCDs, there is an even layer of liquid crystal throughout the panel whereas an OLED display has the electroluminescent material only where it is meant to light up. OLEDs, LCDs and microLEDs can be made flexible and transparent, but LCDs require a backlight because they cannot emit light on their own like OLEDs and microLEDs.

Liquid-crystal display (or LCD) is a thin, flat panel used for electronically displaying information such as text, images, and moving pictures. They are usually made of glass but they can also be made out of plastic. Some manufacturers make transparent LCD panels and special sequential color segment LCDs that have higher than usual refresh rates and an RGB backlight. The backlight is synchronized with the display so that the colors will show up as needed. The list of LCD manufacturers:

Organic light emitting diode (or OLED displays) is a thin, flat panel made of glass or plastic used for electronically displaying information such as text, images, and moving pictures. OLED panels can also take the shape of a light panel, where red, green and blue light emitting materials are stacked to create a white light panel. OLED displays can also be made transparent and/or flexible and these transparent panels are available on the market and are widely used in smartphones with under-display optical fingerprint sensors. LCD and OLED displays are available in different shapes, the most prominent of which is a circular display, which is used in smartwatches. The list of OLED display manufacturers:

MicroLED displays is an emerging flat-panel display technology consisting of arrays of microscopic LEDs forming the individual pixel elements. Like OLED, microLED offers infinite contrast ratio, but unlike OLED, microLED is immune to screen burn-in, and consumes less power while having higher light output, as it uses LEDs instead of organic electroluminescent materials, The list of MicroLED display manufacturers:

LCDs are made in a glass substrate. For OLED, the substrate can also be plastic. The size of the substrates are specified in generations, with each generation using a larger substrate. For example, a 4th generation substrate is larger in size than a 3rd generation substrate. A larger substrate allows for more panels to be cut from a single substrate, or for larger panels to be made, akin to increasing wafer sizes in the semiconductor industry.

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The announcement states that if U.S. suppliers wish to ship products to companies on the UVL, they can still submit documentation to obtain a shipping license. According to TrendForce’s understanding, the primary reason ChuZhou HKC is included on the UVL is that it plans to import panel-related analytical instruments from the United States in the near future, and actions taken by BIS are not indicative of the Chinese panel industry as a whole. Currently, ChuZhou HKC is in the process submitting proposals and negotiating with its U.S. material suppliers, thus TrendForce’s assessment is that there is no impact on the supply and shipment of ChuZhou HKC products for the time being.

It should be noted that according to TrendForce statistics, HKC’s Chuzhou plant will account for only 3.8% of global LCD panel capacity in 2022, which is a fairly insignificant share. However, this plant accounts for 30% of HKC"s own capacity, thereby playing a pivotal role in company production. The Chuzhou factory primarily produces TV panels and monitor panels, among which TV panels account for nearly 80% of the factory"s production. If the current ban cannot be resolved smoothly, it will impact shipments of HKC TV panels.

In addition, the glass substrates used in HKC’s Chuzhou factory are sourced from multiple glass substrate suppliers, with approximately 40% coming from Corning, a U.S. supplier. Since Corning localized it production according to the location of panel makers, it is not expected to be limited by the restrictions on the export of U.S. production to China enumerated on the UVL, but detailed regulations are still awaiting clarification. At present, the supply of materials has not been affected, HKC’s Chuzhou plant maintains normal operation, and its clients have yet to move panel procurement away from the Chuzhou production line.

Therein lies the problem. Either someone in the governing body doesn’t understand the fundamental science behind how TVs and displays work, or they just don’t care. The fact is that 8K TVs, by nature of how LCD panels function, consume considerably more power than 4K TVs. And, in fact, several 4K TVs consume enough power that, while they passed the requirement before, as of March 1, 2023, they no longer will.

According to a detailed report by FlatpanelsHD, it appears no 8K as presently manufactured has an EEI low enough to pass the currently proposed standard. Some 65-inch 8K TVs are just over the line, while others would have to see their EEI cut in half in order to pass. It also appears, based on current EEI, numbers, that neither Samsung’s S95B QD-OLED or Sony’s A95K QD-OLED would pass, nor would Samsung’s QN95B 4K QLED TV.

I spoke to Chris Chinnock, who heads up the 8K Association and recently penned a paper on this topic. He points out that an 8K TV panel has four times the pixels of a 4K TV panel. And because of the way LCD panels work, it is significantly harder to pass light through the tiny aperture of those tiny pixels. The harder it is to pass light, the harder you have to push, and that means increasing the brightness of the TV’s backlight system, which as you can imagine, requires a lot more power.

Because 8K TVs necessarily need far more power just to be as bright as 4K TVs — let alone a bit brighter, as is expected of the premium TV category — significantly reducing 8K TV power consumption would require reinventing the LCD panel as we’ve known it for decades. That can’t happen overnight — if it can happen at all.

Shipments hit 422 million in Q3 2020 withtraditional LCD phone displays (backlit with GaN-based LEDs)losing groundtoflexible OLED whose shipments were up 8 percent year on year in 2020.

Q3 display shipments have risen by 16 percent Q/Q but are slightly lower than 432 million shipments in Q3 2019, after a slow start to 2020 due to the global pandemic which caused many factories closed and US President"s ban on Huawei products in the USA. The market has recovered however from H1 20 where shipments were at 319 million and 370 million in Q2.

Increased demand in the second half of 2020 has been attributed to increased production from many factories within China with production recovering to pre pandemic levels in Q2 20. As well as the manufacturing recovery, Huawei also increased display procurement in anticipation of the US government ban, which came into force in September 2020.

Total TFT LCD display shipments were down 3 percent YoY to 1.08 million whilst Rigid AMOLED shipments accounted for 301 million in 2020 down 4 percent YoY.

2 Min ReadAn employee of LG Electronics" home appliances store walks past its LCD televisions displayed for customers at a store in Seoul July 21, 2008. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak

LG Display, the world’s second-biggest maker of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, has sought alliances with Asian TV makers to strengthen its client base and reduce costs.

The LG-Amtran joint venture will be set up in Amtran’s existing production base in Suzhou, China, with initial funding of $20 million. LG Display will own 51 percent of the new company and Amtran, maker of Vizio brand LCD TVs, will hold the remaining 49 percent.

The joint venture will produce 3 million LCD modules and 5 million LCD TV sets a year, with operations set to start early next year, LG said. It did not disclose the value of any additional investments to be made.

Leading LCD makers, including No. 1 Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, LG Display and third-ranked AU Optronics Corpface a slowing global economy that has hit demand for new flat-screen TVs and personal computers.

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