The product is seen as a secret weapon to boost Samsung's smartphone sales, and it will also help its revenues by boosting capacity utilization for Samsung monitors. The report, citing people familiar with the matter, said the Samsung Monitor was building a test line for a folding OLED panel in its A3 production line. Because it is a test production line, Samsung monitors will initially not put production costs and quality control in the first place, purely to produce products as the first consideration, and the production will be immediately put into the test.
And once the test production is completed, the 2nd phase of cost and quality control will be tested in September to further obtain the cost and quality optimization data. The report further pointed out that after the test production line can enter mass production, it is expected that the single production line will reach the production scale of 100,000 pieces all year round. In 2019, Samsung monitors are expected to produce 1 million folding OLED panels, and Samsung's folding smart phones will be available within 2019 years. In fact, Huawei, the Chinese handset maker, is also actively laying out the folding smartphone, and is ready to launch it in 2019. Samsung was originally in the January 2018 financial meeting, in response to the question of legal persons, said the folding cell phone products have research and development plans, but not the time to go public.
Now, under pressure from Chinese handset makers, Samsung has been aggressively testing and further planning to be launched in 2019. Samsung is about to launch the folding smart phone, the panel size is 7 inches, folding the screen inward, folding will leave one-third of the screen display time and caller ID message. Samsung displays, although the relevant panel module production, most have been transferred to Vietnam production, but the folding OLED panel module will remain in South Korea domestic production.