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Samsung to Bring Samsung Mobile Display Completely In-House?

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On February 2, we reported that Samsung and Corning were discussing something believed to be flexible screens. From what we’ve learned today, flexible mobile phones might be a step closer to reality than we thought.

Samsung may be bringing Samsung Mobile Display fully in-house. Currently SMD is under 64.4-percent ownership by Samsung Electronics and under 35.6-percent ownership by Samsung SDI.

In Samsung’s filing with the Korea stock exchange, the papers read,

“We are considering merging the business to improve synergy, but a final decision has yet to be made,”

…according to Reuter’s report.

It was Samsung SDI that invented LCD, PCP and AMOLED displays.

Samsung Mobile Display is the world’s largest OLED display manufacturer in the world. Other manufacturers use Samsung-made displays, but they do so with a license fee: They pay for the privilege.

If Samsung does bring Samsung Mobile Display fully in-house, Samsung is all but guaranteed to be the mobile phone manufacturer to bring flexible screens to market. With that establishment, Samsung would almost certainly become king of the mobile display hill.

Because of its optional-use nature, the patent on the flexible technology would not fall into the FRAND patent arena, and Samsung could virtually set its own price on licensing fees – after it firmly establishes itself as the leader in the technology with tidy profits.

Corning owns Lotus Glass, which is a strong, flexible glass.

If Samsung Electronics gains in-house control over Samsung Mobile Display and reaches an agreement with Corning…. Well, you get the picture, yes?

Currently, several models have curved displays, but they are stationary: They were made that way. Flexible phones bend at the user’s discretion – a big and very important difference.

Licensing fees to other manufacturers for OLED, AMOLED, and Super AMOLED screens run into the billions. (This is so probable at this point, we won’t use ‘if.’) When Samsung introduces its first model with flexible displays then later licenses out the technology, how much more do you think Samsung will earn from those fees?

The imagination staggers.

The technology can apply to more than mobile phones: Tablets and televisions are applications that come to mind quickly.


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