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Samsung Employees Conspired To Sell AMOLED Tech; 11 Arrested

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. aMOLEd did it by fotoguzzi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure of it.

    --
    Their they're doing there hair.
  2. Re:This is what happens by AikonMGB · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Consider the readership demographic: either you already know what AMOLED is (it is fairly well known in mobile tech circles), or you are sufficiently cognizant to look it up yourself.

  3. Re:Who benefits the most? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm no fan of apple, but your barking up the wrong tree. Apple doesn't use AMOLED screens because AMOLED screens don't offer the high resolution that apple wants. Samsung does manufacture the apple 'retina' displays but they are not based on AMOLED technology. No need to call them in as the bad guy here.

  4. "Business" as usual by Dutchmaan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "According to authorities, the man unsuccessfully attempted to sell the information to a Chinese display manufacturer at that time."

    Call me biased or whatever, but I already knew the word Chinese was gonna be in there before I even read the story.

  5. Re:Who benefits the most? by cos(0) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is that a way to justify theft?

    Some people also benefit from armored money trucks spilling their cargo over a highway.

    But it raises the cost of doing business, and ultimately society pays a price for that.

  6. Re:Who benefits the most? by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apple doesn't use AMOLED screens because AMOLED screens don't offer the high resolution that apple wants.

    It used to be true, but I'm not so sure now. Galaxy Nexus has a 720p AMOLED screen - but that's PenTile. If you count subpixels rather than pixels, though, it's actually exactly the same pixel count as iPhone 4. Granted, physical resolution is still lower - iPhone screen is 3.5", Galaxy Nexus is 4.5". Still, that's about 250 DPI. Given that they are talking about some ongoing developments here, I wouldn't be surprised if Samsung is actually planning to roll out "retina" (300+ DPI) OLED displays soon.