Samsung Employees Conspired To Sell AMOLED Tech; 11 Arrested

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 5, 2012 @08:22AM from the theft-is-intellectual-property dept.

zacharye writes with this snippet from BGR: "Nearly a dozen suspects have been arrested and charged with crimes related to the theft and sale of AMOLED display technology under development at Samsung. Yonhap News Agency on Thursday reported that 11 suspects either currently or formerly employed by Samsung Mobile Display have been arrested. One 46-year-old researcher at Samsung is believed to have accepted a payment of nearly $170,000 from an unnamed 'local rival firm' in exchange for trade secrets pertaining to proprietary Samsung technology used in the company's AMOLED panels..."

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This is what happens by Intrepid+imaginaut · 2012-04-05 08:43 · Score: 0, Redundant

When you let bloggers masquerade as real journalists. For those like me who weren't aware, AMOLED:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMOLED#Comparison_to_other_technologies
AMOLED displays provide higher refresh rates than their passive-matrix OLED counterparts, improving response time often to under a millisecond, and they consume significantly less power. This advantage makes active-matrix OLEDs well suited for portable electronics, where power consumption is critical to battery life.