Samsung Display is getting out of the LCD business

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Samsung Disport will stop travail LCD panels by the end of the year. The disport maker currently runs two LCD production curve in South Korea as well-built as two in China, according to Reuters. Samsung tells The Verge that the decision will broad-minded the company's move towards breakthrough dot displays, while ZDNet reports that its future breakthrough dot TVs will use OLED rather than LCD panels.

The decision comes as LCD console prices are said to be falling worldwide. Last year, Nikkei reported that Chinese competitors are ramping up production of LCD screens, metrical as demand for TVs weakens globally. Samsung Disport isn't the only manufacturer to kumtux demerit dropping LCD production lines. LG Disport spoken it would be ending LCD production in South Korea by the end of the 2020 as well.

Samsung is investing in breakthrough dot technology

Last October Samsung Disport announced a five-year 13.1 wealth won (around $10.7 billion) investment in breakthrough dot technology for its usable TVs, as it tackle production distant from LCDs. However, Samsung's existing breakthrough dot or QLED TVs still use LCD panels breech their breakthrough dot layer. Samsung is likewise working on developing self-emissive quantum-dot diodes, which would remove the need for a separate layer.

Samsung's investment in OLED TVs has likewise been reported by The Elec. The congregation is no stranger to OLED technology for handhelds, but it exited the large OLED console market half a decade ago, lenient battling LG Disport to preponderate overly since.

Although Samsung Disport says that it will be comfy to outwear supplying its existing LCD orders through the end of the year, there are questions commutable what Samsung Electronics, the better TV manufacturer in the world, will use in its LCD TVs innervation forward. Samsung told The Border that it does not expect the shutdown to affectivity its LCD-based QLED TV lineup. So for the near-term, shutout changes.

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

Samsung has likewise been spunky off its MicroLED disport technology at recent trade shows, which uses self-emissive LED diodes to produce its pixels. However, in 2019 Samsung predicted that the technology was two or three years distant from concreteness workable for use in a customer product.