Samsung denies that it has stopped the supply of lcds to Apple. The Korean company says adhere to the supply agreement with Apple. Samsung, The Korea Times, where the rumor came from, asked the news about this change.
“We have the supply of lcds to Apple not stopped,” a spokesman of Samsung compared to The Wall Street Journal. Samsung says that the information that The Korea Times has published not based on truth and that this ‘guesswork’ as a result of the patentenrechtszaak. “We continue to panels supplying all of our customers,” assures the spokesman. The Korea Times has asked the original post to rectify it.
The English-language Korean newspaper came Monday with the message that Samsung next year no lcd’s more wanted to deliver it to Apple, because the company from Cupertino too much in the milk to say would have, so the margin on the panels to low. The Korea Times relying on information from an anonymous Samsung employee.
According to The Wall Street Journal is it true that Apple’s lcd orders from Samsung declined, but would decrease in accord with the natural product cycle, particularly the iPad series. For the new iPad with Retina display, which in march was announced, both Samsung as LG Display and Sharp are the suppliers, although the current distribution between the three is not known. LG Display, Japan Display and Sharp would be the screens for the new iPhone 5 and the new iPod models.
Apple has last year for approximately $ 8 billion in displays and chips ordered at Samsung, and is thus the largest customer of the Korean company. The amount is good for around 15 percent of Samsung’s componentenactiviteiten. Samsung gets two-thirds of its revenue from products such as tvs, mobile phones, cameras and printers.