Samsung will supply LED-Backlit notebook panel to HP

The Korean manufacturing giant has tied up with the US Goliath in notebook productions for good.

 Samsung Electronic lends orders of supplying 14.5” LED-backlit notebook panels to Hewlett-Packard (HP) – as reported by Digitimes. When this materializes, this will be a new display panel size, as there has been no notebook in the market with this display size. Digitimes mentioned that the panels will be produced at Samsung's 5G plant, which can cut 18 14.5-inch panels from a substrate. HP plans to launch the 14.5” LED-backlit notebook at the beginning of 2010. Sources close to Digitimes estimated the prices of a 14.5-inch LED-backlit panel to be around $58-64.

There has been a major reshuffling in the market of late related to suppliers of notebook parts. Recently Singapore-based notebook manufacturer Flextronics International has obtained orders for notebook from HP and will begin to ship two models as early as the end of September 2009 with an initial monthly volume of 50,000-60,000 units. Although this order only accounts for about 2-4% of HP's total notebook shipments, both the new partners have confirmed that the partnership will still create a competition towards Taiwan-based notebook makers, and it only has a scope of growing from here. Also only last month, Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel maker Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) has got orders for 11.6-inch and a 13.3-inch CULV panel from Dell and Samsung respectively.