It’s a little more complicated than that.
Samsung has decided they no longer want to sell or support smartthings branded devices. However, they will still provide the cloud platform and the app. So they are identifying other companies to be the manufacturer partners for the “works as a Smartthings Hub” hubs and for the zigbee devices.
The identified partner for both the North American region and the UK/EU region is aeotec, and these devices are starting to become available.
The first ones look to be identical to the previous SmartThings branded ones, just with a new logo. And yes, that includes the line of zigbee devices.
Where someone might have become confused is that up until now Aeotec has only manufactured Z wave devices, not zigbee.
However, rather than Aeotec taking over and only offering zwave, it appears instead that this new partnership is a means for Aeotec to begin offering Zigbee Devices also.
Official announcements and discussion in the following thread:
An Update Regarding our Hardware
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https://aeotec.com/zigbee/