If you could’t Beat ‘Em: Samsung Making screens For Apple units

Samsung has pulled together a 200-individual group devoted to producing monitors for Apple gadgets, sources informed Bloomberg. The move is one thing of a concession from the Korean tech giant, which has been shedding floor to different smartphone makers in contemporary years.

The Samsung group commenced working on April 1 to provide monitors for iPads and MacBooks, says Bloomberg’s source. it can be now not clear whether the staff is manufacturing monitors for present Apple gadgets or serving to improve solely new ones (or each), but the group must preserve information about their Apple work throughout the group. relations between Apple and Samsung have more desirable when you consider that they agreed last August to forestall slinging lawsuits at every other. Bloomberg notes that Samsung won again a separate Apple contract for semiconductors that it had lost ultimate year to a Taiwanese company.

As Samsung loses a few of its smartphone edge (the corporate offered 73 million smartphones within the fourth quarter of 2014, in comparison with 83.3 million in the same period of 2013, Forbes stories), executives are specializing in other increase areas, particularly related units. earlier this yr, Samsung CEO BK Yoon introduced the company is investing $a hundred million within the nascent internet of things.

[by the use of Bloomberg]