Last week, the judge presiding over the trial between Samsung and Apple, which is currently taking place in the US, he asked the presidents of his two companies discuss a possible amicable settlement of the dispute. Because the trial has ended and in the following days the jury must make a decision, today Tim Cook and Kwon Oh Hyun, CEO of Samsung, vI would have discussions to try to find a way to solve all problems amicably.
The South Korean group named Kwon Oh-hyun as its new CEO [in June]. Currently head of Samsung's components business, which oversees chips and display, Kwon cemented Samsung's position in memory chips, where it has almost 50 percent global market share, and expanded into non-memory, or logic chips, which now account for 40 percent of Samsung's overall semiconductor revenue... Under Kwon, Samsung became the sole supplier of the mobile processors that power Apple's iPhone and iPad – rival products to Samsung's own Galaxy and Note. The 59-year-old former engineer, who studied electrical engineering at Seoul National University and Stanford, has also led a restructuring of Samsung's LCD flat-screen business.
Their discussion will only be by phone and although the judge is optimistic, the rest of the analysts and lawyers do not seem so confident in a possible agreement concluded by the two companies. At the moment the process has reached the point where no one can do anything and considering that so far none of the two presidents have been willing to give in, there is no solid reason to indicate that this discussion will change something.
