Samsung creates team to make screens for Apple devices: Bloomberg
Reuters
Published Apr 15, 2015 03:01AM ET
Updated Apr 15, 2015 03:11AM ET
Samsung creates team to make screens for Apple devices: Bloomberg
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics (KS:005930) Co has created a standalone team of about 200 employees to work exclusively on making screens for rival smartphone maker Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL)'s products, Bloomberg reported, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter.
The team at Samsung Display Co, which provides screens for iPads and MacBooks, helps develop products and is only allowed to share information about Apple's business within the group, Bloomberg said.
The team, formed on April 1, also helps with sales and Apple is now the biggest external customer for Samsung components, Bloomberg said.
A Samsung Display spokesman declined to comment on the report. Representatives at Apple could not immediately be reached for comment outside regular U.S. business hours.
Samsung and Apple last year agreed to drop all patent litigation outside the United States, scaling down a protracted legal battle between the smartphone rivals.
The legal battle between the smartphone rivals began in the United States in 2011 when Apple accused Samsung of copying its iPhone designs. Samsung countered that Apple was using pieces of its wireless-transmission technology without permission.
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