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  It’s official. Samsung will acquire all Sony shares from the S-LCD joint venture to make it a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics. Samsung will pay Sony about 1.08 trillion won (US$940 million) for the transfer of shares and have entered into a new agreement wherein Samsung will supply LCD panels to Sony at [...]

  Sony will end its 7-year partnership to manufacture LCD panels with Samsung, says Reuters. The report is pretty light on the details but Samsung has confirmed to make an announcement soon where Sony will sell back its stake to Samsung. Sony and Samsung setup S-LCD as a 50:50 joint venture in 2004 to manufacture [...]

  Samsung has joined hands with Panasonic, SanDisk, Sony and Toshiba to develop a new content protection technology for flash memory and SD cards and other storage devices. The initiative known as Next Generation Secure Memory will license and promote security solution which will protect HD-capable content that can be used in tablets, smartphones, TV [...]

  Sony is in talks with Samsung to terminate their LCD panel production joint venture, S-LCD. According to a report by Japan’s Mainchi Daily News, Sony is hoping to reach an agreement with the Korean company by the end of the year. Both companies have 50 percent share each in the venture with Samsung holding [...]

  Sony’s upcoming handheld gaming console will apparently have a processor manufactured by Samsung, according to a report on Japanese site Semiconductor Industry News. The processor will use Samsung’s 45nm fabrication process and going by the official spec sheet, the CPU will be a quad-core ARM Cortex A9 chip along with SGX543MP4+ GPU. PlayStation Vita [...]

  Samsung and Sony have a partnership in the form of S-LCD and the latest rumor suggests that both the companies might extend the partnership further when top executive from both the companies will meet together next week. The dinner meeting between Samsung’s chairman Lee Kun-hee and Sony CEO, Howard Stringer will take place on [...]

  This one comes directly from Amazon deals. Starting from today till July 6, anyone who buys a ‘qualifying’ Samsung HDTV from Amazon is eligible to get a Sony BDP-S360 Blu-ray player valued at $300 for free. Granted the proportionate value to the TV might not be much but free is free, right? A good [...]

  S-LCD, a joint venture between Samsung and Sony has commenced operations of second 8th generation line for LCD panels. The company had invested 1.8 trillion KRW (around $1.5 billion) and provides LCD panels to other TV-making companies, including Samsung and Sony. The new line will mainly produce 32/46/52-inches panels with a year-end target of [...]