Samsung pumps USD3.6bn into OLED panel production
The new production line is expected to make medium and small-sized OLED displays for consumer electronics devices like smartphones and tablets. The investment will be made from 2015 to 2017.
The new production line will begin by producing curved panels like those on the Galaxy Note Edge but will aim to help win Samsung Electronics external customers to drive future earnings growth as sales of the smartphone business decline.
The investment is a reaction to the fourth quarter data in 2014 showing that rival Apple Inc is becoming increasingly competitive with Samsung and is now challenging to be recognised as the world’s top smartphone maker.
Samsung Electronics invested $21bn in capital expenditures for the company’s components business in 2014. Approximately $12.9bn was for the semiconductor business while another $3.6bn was directed to displays.
In addition to the planned OLED investment, Samsung is expected to start building a $14bn chip plant in South Korea sometime in the first half of 2015. The company said in October 2014 that construction for this plant will be completed in the second half of 2017.
LG Display Co Ltd has also declared plans to invest $0.9bn between $1bn in 2015 to add capacity in an existing large-panel OLED production line.
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