Quantum Dot in TVs about to end: Samsung will give up production by 2028
The world’s largest TV manufacturer Samsung reportedly wants to phase out the production of TV sets with quantum dot technology. By 2028, QD TVs will reportedly be abandoned while they focus on other systems.
Premium TVs with Quantum Dot are disappearing
Samsung and some other manufacturers introduced the so-called quantum dots years ago as the next big thing in television production and have marketed them aggressively ever since. However, more and more providers are now switching to more modern technologies, which is why Samsung is now planning to phase out the production of LCD televisions with quantum dot levels. According to a report from the South Korean portal, Samsung wants to do so this year ETNews to scale back production of QD-based TVs by around 80 percent, even though the technology was core to the company’s strategy around premium models.
Production will end by the end of 2028
For the entire year 2026, according to industry sources, Samsung has reduced the planned number of units from 10 million units in 2025 to just two to three million devices. While Samsung continues to produce around 40 million televisions per year, the proportion of models with quantum dot technology will only be five to 15 percent in the future.
Samsung previously offered two product series with quantum dot technology, which it marketed under the names “QLED” and “Neo QLED”, the latter of which stands out with its backlighting with mini-LEDs. However, with the model change in 2026, the Korean company has phased out the production of “normal” QLED models.
Samsung is giving in to competition with China
After the entry-level versions in the lower range of Samsung’s premium TV segment previously came with QLED technology, they now only use mini-LED lighting without a quantum dot insert. They now apparently want to take the same step with the more expensive models, although production of quantum dot panels is expected to end as early as 2028. Behind Samsung’s progressive abandonment of quantum dot televisions is supposedly the competitive pressure from Chinese manufacturers, who are now also advertising QD technology in their products on a massive scale, but only use the materials in very small quantities – or not at all.
In fact, lawsuits are ongoing in several countries against Chinese manufacturers such as TCL or Hisense, with a German court already ruling in favor of the Korean manufacturers when it was found that TCL was actually engaging in misleading advertising when the manufacturer’s devices from China were advertised as having quantum dot technology, but ultimately sometimes did not contain any corresponding materials at all. Samsung is said to have decided that it is not worth continuing to compete with Chinese providers in this area. Instead, the premium sector will increasingly rely on mini-LED and the next generation of RGB mini-LED TV models in the future, according to the report.
