Report: Samsung is expanding its display driver chip supplier pool‎

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 has been a pretty popular device, but Samsung has faced several issues in meeting consumer demand. On top of battling rising storage and RAM prices, Samsung has apparently hit a third bottleneck - display driver integrated circuits (DDIs). Display panel operation diagram (Samsung Display) These are specialized chips that serve as the interface between the phone’s CPU and display panel. They control sub-pixels and rendering using thin-film transistors and control color and brightness levels for each pixel on the phone’s screen. According to a recent ZDNet...