Display segment orders were down 14%, due to weaker demand from LCD television customers.
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Our Display Technologies segment continued to stabilize its earnings with another quarter of moderate LCD glass price declines.
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The Display Panel segment recorded an operating profit of 750 billion won on revenue of 8.25 trillion won.
For the Display Panel segment, 6.6 trillion won has been allocated for investment.
While the Semiconductor Business landed profits in the quarter, the Display Panel segment struggled, as demand for IT panels for notebooks and monitors remained slow.
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Capital expenditure in the first quarter was 7.8 trillion won, with 5.8 trillion won invested in the Semiconductor Business and 1.3 trillion won in the Display Panel segment.
Capital expenditure in the first six months was 14 trillion won, with 9.7 trillion won invested in the Semiconductor Business and 2.6 trillion won in the Display Panel segment.
While operating profit for the Display Panel segment registered an on-year increase, the Semiconductor Business saw profits drop by 38 percent compared with the same period last year, despite outperforming the previous quarter.
Cambridge Display dominates the large-molecule segment, having just acquired its main rival, a British firm called Opsys.
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As the first and only company to announce availability of the next-generation TV technology, LG is prepared to ramp up quickly to take the lead in the OLED segment that is expected to grow to 7.2 million units by 2016, according to Display Search.
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