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Retina display supplier Samsung, others settle price fixing suit for $1.12B

Christian Zibreg ∙ July 13, 2012

Apple's key components provider Samsung which supplies, among other items, Retina panels for the new iPad, agreed along with other defendants to settle a price fixing class-action lawsuit for a whopping $1.12 billion.

Samsung has agreed to pay $240 million, AU Optronics will pony up $170 million, Toshiba will pay only $21 million and LG Display will settle for $380 million in damages.

This settlement - the largest consumer class-action price-fixing settlement ever - is in addition to previous settlements from ten manufacturers and prison terms for some executives, The Wall Street Journal reported...

Toshiba to Provide 720p Retina Display for Future iPhone?

Guest Author ∙ May 16, 2011

Around this time of year, next-generation iPhone rumors are usually coming left and right. According to a new report, Toshiba is building a 4-inch 720p Retina Display for Apple.

If you may recall, late last year Reuters reported that Apple and Toshiba were working together on a plant to make displays for iOS devices. Toshiba had announced that it would build a factory for 100 billion yen (about $1.2 billion) to produce future LCD panels.

Yesterday, Toshiba announced its next generation of mobile displays, which Toshiba will be showing off in LA this week. According to the press release, the mobile displays are sized from 3.3 inches to 4 inches, with resolutions from Wide VGA (480-by-864) to HD (720-by-1280).

Toshiba’s Tablet Website Disses the iPhone And the iPad

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

You mad? Toshiba's teaser site for their upcoming tablet line looks like any regular Flash website on a normal desktop web browser. Visit that same website from an iOS device such as the iPhone or iPad, and not so much.

While it's obvious that the Flash aspects would be omitted from the iOS versions of the website due to Apple's well documented lack of support for the plugin, it's not the lack of Flash that has people talking this time...

Toshiba And Apple Reach Agreement For iPhone LCD Displays – iPhone 6, Anyone?

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated May 16, 2016

We've heard the rumblings about the supply problems stemming out of Apple's current relationship with LG, the South Korean firm that currently supplies the iPhone LCD screens.

In a move that will likely give Apple more control over supply, Toshiba has announced that it will build a factory for 100 billion yen to produce future LCD panels. That's a lot of money, about 1.2 billion in US dollars, which will certainly put Toshiba in the drivers seat when it comes to supplying screens for the iPhone.

Production isn't scheduled to start until Q3 2011, so it's entirely possible that these new screens could be used for the inevitable iPhone 6...