Samsung's screen-making division Samsung Display will not be a supplier of the small flexible panels that will appear in Huawei's next foldable smartphone, according to a report from South Korea. The tech giants reportedly had a gentleman's agreement on the matter, but their collaboration was to end shortly after the deal was struck.
The roadblock Samsung and Huawei ran into appeared to have to do with the US Commerce Department and its ever-tightening sanctions against the Chinese smartphone giant since last year. At the same time, Samsung Display should have secured a license from the US government last October, which allowed it to supply certain display panels to Huawei. It should have obtained the permit on the grounds that its foldable displays are largely independent of American technologies. So the situation seems to have changed since then.
According to ZDNet Korea, Huawei is last minute for its next flexible phone Mate x2 acquired a new display supplier, namely the Chinese company BOE, which is the most successful screen manufacturer in the market there and also one of Samsung's biggest rivals in the industry. As you know from our previous news, the Mate X2 will be launched on February 22.
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