Samsung Display (SDC) will completely terminate LCD panel production in June 2022, according to South Korea-based media The Bell.
Stopping LCD production at its L8-2 plant in June will mark the end of its LCD panel business, said the report.
SDC in 2017 shut down four 5G lines for small- to medium-size LCD panels in South Korea, with manufacturing equipment sold to China-based panel makers and vacant factory space rented to affiliated Samsung Electro-Mechanics and Samsung Electronics.
SDC closed a 7G fab of large-size LCD panels in 2016 and another in January 2021, with the first one converted into a 6G OLED panel line and the second undergoing such conversion.
SDC sold its 8.5G LCD line in eastern China to China-based China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) in first-half 2021, leaving L8-1 and L8-2 in South Korea as its only remaining LCD fabs.
SDC has converted L8-1 it into a QD-OLED (quantum dot-OLED) production line. Dell and Sony will reportedly adopt QD-OLED panels for gaming monitors and TVs respectively.
While SDC has not yet decided the future use of L8-2, it is likely to be converted into an 8G OLED production line as well.
