According to a report from Reuters, Samsung Display will stop manufacturing of conventional LCD shows by the tip of the 12 months. The transfer comes as the corporate is seemingly turning its full efforts away from conventional liquid crystal shows and in the direction of the corporate’s portfolio of quantum dot know-how. Building off of the Reuters report, ZDNet is reporting that Samsung is dropping LCD manufacturing completely – together with its quantum dot-enhanced “QLED” LCDs – and that their retooled efforts will deal with QD-enhanced OLED shows. A choice with massive ramifications for the standard LCD market, which means that by the tip of the 12 months, the LCD market shall be dropping one in all its greater (and best-known) producers.
As just lately as final 12 months, Samsung Display had two LCD manufacturing services in South Korea and one other two LCD vegetation in China. Back in October, 2019, the corporate halted manufacturing one of many South Korean factories, and now plans to droop manufacturing of LCDs on the remaining three services as a result of low profitability and oversupply of conventional LCDs.
Instead, the corporate shall be turning its consideration in the direction of the quantum dot-enhanced OLED shows. A brand new know-how for Samsung, this may be distinct from the corporate’s present QLED shows, which use quantum dots to reinforce LCD shows. Samsung beforehand introduced their plans to take a position a whopping $11 billion in QD-OLED manufacturing, and now these plans are transferring one step nearer to completion as the corporate will get able to wind-down conventional LCD manufacturing.
To that finish, one of many two South Korean LCD strains shall be transformed to provide shows and TVs that includes quantum dot-enhanced OLED panels. Samsung Display hopes that their sizable funding will repay as the brand new know-how guarantees unprecedented picture high quality and decrease value in comparison with common OLED panels. Meanwhile, Samsung’s longer-term plans embody constructing of two QD-OLED strains, although it is unclear for now whether or not it will embody any of the corporate’s Chinese services, or what could occur to these strains as soon as they shut down on the finish of the 12 months.
Overall, Samsung just isn’t the primary nor the one LCD panel producer to cut back their manufacturing. LG Display has transformed as least one in all its LCD factories to an OLED facility, whereas Panasonic final 12 months determined to stop LCD manufacturing by 2021.
