Samsung sells its LCD plant in China to TCL for $1.8 billion
Samsung Display has sold its LCD plant in Suzhou, China, insiders reveal. The main buyer is the local company CSOT which is owned by TCL, the conglomerate that also builds the alcatel smartphones.
The (former) Samsung complex in Suzhou, ChinaThe total deal is worth $1.8 billion - 60% of the plant will be owned by CSOT, 10% by its parent company TCL, while the rest 30% will be handed out to the Suzhou government. The plant produced 27% of Samsung Display’s total amount of LCD panels, with most of them being for monitors and TVs.
This step is a confirmation to earlier reports that Samsung is trying to discontinue its LCD business and will refocus to quantum dot screens.
The Korea Herald reported that the plant has three 8.5-generation production lines and one 11-generation line, the latter planning to begin manufacturing from early next year. Interestingly enough, the report also revealed Samsung Display reinvested $723 million into TCL-related companies to acquire 12.33% of their shares.
Related
Reader comments
- thubleau
- 04 Sep 2024
- vFr
Well thats strange considering Samsung only have one panel in 2022 that is the s95B QD-OLED and have to buy all their LCD panels from other manufacturers.
- Syed Raihan
- 01 Sep 2020
- q{M
I'm not sure if they are moving out of China - they seem to be restructuring. Samsung is focusing their own production towards Quantum Dots technology. Besides, Samsung owns a good portion of TCL too. They are staying there, only in different le...
- Anonymous
- 01 Sep 2020
- sxr
How old are you? I am ignorant on the new screens but LED was a fantastic improvement over my 1960s black and white tube tv