{"id":481132,"date":"2026-03-17T22:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481132\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:53:09","slug":"samsung-starts-buying-chinese-display-panels-for-its-mid-range-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481132\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung starts buying Chinese display panels for its mid-range smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>CSOT&#8217;s panels are at least 20% cheaper than Samsung&#8217;s, and the move is speculated to be aimed at offsetting rising memory costs by lowering other device costs in the mid-range. Samsung has allegedly ordered 15 million display panels from CSOT, which will be used in the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/samsung_galaxy_a57_5g-14379.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy A57<\/a> as well as some unnamed upcoming FE handsets which are scheduled to begin production in April (Galaxy S26 FE?).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" alt=\"Samsung Galaxy A56\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773787989_983_gsmarena_001.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nSamsung Galaxy A56<\/p>\n<p>As you may expect, Samsung Display wasn&#8217;t very happy with this decision made by Samsung Electronics, and even appealed to higher-ups in the group to reverse it, but wasn&#8217;t successful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelec.net\/news\/articleView.html?idxno=5883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a new report from Korea, Samsung is diversifying its display supply chain. This creates a funny&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-481132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}