Reports suggest that Samsung Electronics may acquire some of its OLED panels for the upcoming Galaxy A57 smartphone from TCL CSOT. Up until now, SDC has been the exclusive supplier of Samsung's A5 smartphone family (which is a sort of high-mid-range series). The same OLED panel will also be used on the upcoming Galaxy S FE models next year.
Samsung Display is still likely to bet he main supplier for these displays, but Samsung Electronics considers adding TCL CSOT as a supplier to reduce costs. Up until now the A5 series used rigid (glass-based) OLEDs, but next year Samsung may opt for a flexible AMOLED to enable smaller screen bezel and a lighter phone. Flexible AMOLEDs are more expensive to make, and adding TCL CSOT as a second supplier may offset some of these costs.
TCL CSOT has been supplying smartphone AMOLED displays to Samsung since 2021, for some of its M-series (budget) and A-series (mid-range) phones. However the shipments of its A5-series is significantly higher and this may be a very meaningful deal for TCL CSOT.
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