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Rumours That Samsung Display Will Split its OLED & LCD Business

Samsung Display was spun off from Samsung Electronics in April 2012 and in July 2012, in an attempt to streamline operations, Samsung Mobile Display was merged into Samsung Display (SDC), which still maintains two display units: OLED and LCD.

OLED-Info [1], the comprehensive online portal for all things OLED, is now reporting [2] that SDC is planning to split itself into two companies – one for OLED displays and one for LCDs.

OLED-Info states that “Samsung Display had a tough 2014 … and posted low operating profits and even a loss in Q3 as it lost its market leadership to LG Display. SDC now ‘blames’ its LCD business of “pulling down the entire earnings” while OLEDs are highly profitable. The LCD unit is reportedly lowering morale, too.