We have a soap opera and one of the good ones in the mobile sector. Several people have been caught selling information about the screen technology of the folding phone of Samsung to a rival Chinese company. This is all that is known so far of such a scandal.
The bomb went off last Thursday. According to the American media Bloomberg, the CEO of Toptec Co Ltd, a South Korean supplier to Samsung, and eight of its employees received the outrageous sum of $13,8 million in exchange for transferring information about the technology of the screens of future Samsung folding phones -specifically that of "3D lamination" as well as that related to other components.
The most anticipated phone of 2019
As you well know, we have been waiting for the rumored folding phone for a long time and finally at the beginning of November Samsung confirmed its existence at its developer conference. The terminal will have a screen that has been named Infinity Flex Display and whose mass production should not take long to start.
Many of the terminal's specifications are unknown, although we know that the commented panel is of type flexible AMOLED and that when it is "open" it has a size of 7,3 inches. The marketing date is a mystery, but at least with its presentation we confirm that the nicknamed Galaxy F -it will not be his final name, be careful- he exists and that he will put everything upside down next year.
It is not necessary, therefore, to explain to you why this device is so sweet, something that the top manager of Toptec also took into account. For this reason, the CEO could not think of anything other than create your own fake company and build the same flexible displays in a different factory and then try to sell them to a Chinese company. The sale, and consequent breach of confidentiality agreement with Samsung, it was managed between May and August of this 2018 for the aforementioned sum of money. It is unknown, however, which company was the final recipient.
as for his own caught of this maneuver, it seems almost like something out of a movie: Samsung discovered that this provider was loading components on a ship whose destination was China, thus uncovering the entire plot.
Samsung has confessed to Bloomberg be "shocked with the results of the investigation carried out by prosecutors, at a time when competitors are intensifying their technological rivalry." Please note that Samsung carries more than six years working in the development of this screen technology and more than $130 million invested that have now been put in jeopardy after this event.
We will see how the case continues and what is the penalty that Toptec receives after such a move.