Samsung today reached an agreement with five Japanese companies to develop and sell semiconductor products for mobile devices. The five companies including Samsung are NTT Docomo, Fujitsu Ltd, Fujitsu Semiconductor, NEC Corp. and Panasonic Mobile Communications. The companies will setup a fabless joint venture that will develop small, low-power semiconductor products with modem support. […]
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Samsung LED to merge with Samsung Electronics
It’s a day of mergers and acquisitions. After confirming the S-LCD takeover to make it a wholly-owned Samsung Electronics subsidiary, Samsung Electronics will absorb its another subsidiary, Samsung LED. Samsung Electronics had an equal stake in the LED subsidiary with Samsung Electro-Mechanics but with the merger, Samsung Electronics will merge the unit with its […]
Samsung to acquire S-LCD, will supply LCD panels to Sony
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 […]
Reuters: Sony to end S-LCD partnership with Samsung
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 teases future of Smart TV, will unveil at CES 2012
We’re three weeks away from the world’s biggest tech expo – CES and Samsung has kick started its marketing initiatives with the teaser of a Smart TV. The teaser video does not hint at anything except for the claim to show us the future of Smart TV, which will be unveiled at CES 2012. […]