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Samsung Starts Buying Chinese Display Panels for Its Mid-Range Smartphones

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According to a new report from Korea, Samsung is diversifying its display supply chain. This creates a funny situation where Samsung (Electronics) will stop buying screens from Samsung (Display) for some mid-range devices, instead opting to purchase from CSOT, owned by TCL. CSOT's panels are at least 20% cheaper than Samsung's, and the move is speculated to be aimed at offsetting rising memory costs by lowering other device costs in the mid-rang…
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Samsung could in future rely on displays from a third-party manufacturer for some smartphones instead of installing its own screens. Thus, the manufacturer wants to counteract a big problem.read more on t3n.de

From Korea there are reports that Samsung would resort to Chinese panels in an attempt to reduce the cost of manufacturing its mid-range smartphones, and the chosen one is CSOT. This is really not bad news for the industry, as there are very good IPS or OLED panel manufacturers in China. This really affects Samsung Display itself, that is, the subsidiary of the company specializing in manufacturing panels for smartphones, laptops, monitors or te…

Read the original note in the following link: Memory Blame: Samsung will use CSOT Chinese OLED screens on the Galaxy A57 and S26 FE to reduce costs Samsung made a decision that had rarely been seen in its recent history. And it is that the Korean company chose to replace its own OLED screens on the Galaxy A57 and Galaxy S26 Fan Edition models by panels manufactured by CSOT (China Star Optoelectronics Technology), a second-tier Chinese supplier. …

According to South Korean publication The Elec, Samsung intends to optimize the cost of its upcoming mid-range smartphones by integrating more affordable OLED panels from Chinese supplier CSOT. Industry experts report that the tech giant has already ordered approximately 15 million panels, which will be installed in models such as the Galaxy A57 and Galaxy S26 FE. Galaxy S25 FE. Image:... The post "Samsung Galaxy A57 and S26 FE to be equipped wi…

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se7en.ws broke the news in on Monday, March 16, 2026.
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