Samsung is a big move? Nearly 500 million acquisition of a U.S. QLED technology company

According to the Korea Times reported that Samsung Electronics is ready to acquire U.S. enterprise QDVision, which is a quantum dot material developers. Samsung and LG and other companies are competing for the next generation of television, the acquisition will help enhance the strength of samsung.

Samsung Advanced Technology Research Institute president ChungChil-hee told reporters on Wednesday: "we decided to acquire QD Vision. Samsung did not disclose the specific purchase price, according to an estimate of about $70 million (equivalent to RMB 484 million yuan).

In the past 11 years, Samsung has been the world's largest TV maker. Samsung hopes to be able to control the use of quantum dot TV high-end market. After obtaining QDVison professional technology and patents, Samsung can form a synergistic effect, the quantum dot technology will be used in high-end TV product line.

In 2004, a team of MIT QDVision, the company specializes in research and development of quantum dots core technology. So far, QD Vision has established partnerships with TCL, Hisense, SONY. In the future, Samsung can cooperate with QDVision in the absence of heavy metal quantum dots technology to expand the company's share in the high-end market.

In the next generation of television technology standards, Samsung and LG intense competition, this acquisition will make the competition more intense. LG actively advocates self luminous OLED technology, this technology does not require a backlight panel, black deeper. Samsung's route is different, it is the main push quantum dot tv. Samsung Electronics visual display department President KimHyun-seok advocates that quantum dot LED (QLED) TV will become the mainstream of the future of the television industry, it will be the advantages of LCD and OLED together.

In this year's CES show, Samsung demonstrated a quantum dot SUHD TV, the brightness of 1000 nits, reached the highest level of industrial grade HDR. In recent years, HDR has become more and more popular in the TV and content industries, because it can expand the range of black and brightness, make the image more vivid. KimHyun-seok said: "quantum dot display technology will become more and more important, HDR will get more attention. "

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The modern securities (HyundaiSecurities) analyst Kim Dong-won said: "this acquisition will form a huge synergies, Samsung can be pre emptive, access to potential patents, with quantum dots of QDVision core technology to enhance their own strength. Samsung OLED TV can be released in advance, to occupy a leading position in the next generation of TV competition. "

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