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 […]
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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, Sony and others collaborate on Next Generation Secure Memory Solution
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 to reportedly walk out of S-LCD venture
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 […]
Samsung to manufacture PlayStation Vita CPU?
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 […]