When it comes to television with OLED panels, a brand inevitably comes to mind. dir-dir Korean manufacturer LG, which has always boasted such panels and will now be responsible for supplying materials to Samsung.

This is a deal that has already been discussed in the latest edition of CES. LG will become Samsung’s partner in television production. However, thanks to the pre-planned agreement between the two South Korean companies, LG Display will supply OLED panels to Samsung.

Threat from China

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Crisis and rivalry make strange companions. And as Reuters reported, LG Display will be responsible for the sales of W-OLED panels For Samsung to install on their TV. And it will start doing that before 2023 ends.

The threat comes from China, a country where manufacturers are becoming increasingly important worldwide. More and more manufacturers want to compete with a technology that has hitherto been in the hands of South Korean brands.

In fact, we already have Samsung televisions on the market that integrate a second-generation QD-OLED matrix and The two generations of 2022 and 2023 left a great taste in our palate. With Samsung’s QD-OLEDs, it’s forced LG to stand up and throw the rest away for not being in such a comfortable position.

And despite the fact that both companies are rivals, they sign an agreement that benefits both against the “common enemy” and therefore benefits. LG Display will sell W-OLED panels to Samsung. In fact, the numbers are already on paper: LG Display will deliver two million OLED panels to Samsung in 2024, reaching five million by 2025. quarter since the second quarter of last year.

It tackles a deal of big numbers and numbers that can’t be ignored. an agreement that Samsung will dethrone Sony as the world’s second-largest OLED TV manufacturer after only LG. Currently, LG has a market share of 54.6% in this type of panel, while Sony has 26.1% and Samsung 6.1%, even though Samsung is (in general) the world’s largest television manufacturer.

A deal that will also serve to compress the capacity of the LG Display OLED factory kept production below its maximum capacity (which is supplying LG itself and Sony), due to a limited customer base, will now grow significantly with the advent of Samsung-

With the signed agreement, the first panels that LG will supply to Samsung, Designed for televisions with wide diagonals of 77 and 83 inchess, later to cover other models of more compact sizes.

via | Reuters

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