Hoya Corporation continues to make public statements about possible "deeper relationship" with another company, possibly Samsung. Those are the words of the COO Hiroshi Yamada (see previous statements of Hoya's CEO here):
"I don’t know whether we’ll go with Samsung or somebody else, but I can say that we’ll have a deeper relationship with some electronics guys. There will be consolidation in the camera business and a small player like us will be like a small boat on a rough sea. But let me be clear: we will not shut down this business.”