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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$56.7B
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Samsung is giving American and Japanese electronics giants a run for their money. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Korea: SEC) was founded in 1938 and is headquartered in Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea. The company is one of the largest chip and electronics makers, offering a range of consumer products like TVs, DVD players, audio and video equipment, cameras, memory and chips, phones, and networking devices. The Company has annual revenue of about $84.2 billion and employs about 123,000 people. In March 2006 the company unveiled the world's first 8GB Hard Disk embedded smartphone (model: SGH-i310).
Vice Chairman & Co-CEOHak Soo Lee
Number of Employees 150,000
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Household Laundry Equipment Manufacturing: 335224
Recent Events
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GRNB, HDIX, PVSA, PDFS, HBNC, RCKY Expected To Be Lower Leading Up To Next Earnings...
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ITC RULES IN FAVOR OF SAMSUNG AGAINST SHARP ON LCD TECHNOLOGY
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ITC Approves Import Ban on Sharp TVs, Displays
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Samsung Reveals 32 Gigabyte DDR3 for Servers
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SAMSUNG, NUMONYX FORM ALLIANCE ON NEW MEMORY TECHNOLOGY
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Samsung unveils Samsung Jet Smartphone
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Samsung Unveils 32GB DDR3 Memory Modules.
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Samsung Develops Mini-Card Solid State Drive For Netbooks
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BRIEFING - ASIA ELECTRONICS - JUNE 22, 2009
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Samsung, Toshiba renew NAND patent pact
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Samsung's Android Smartphone--The Galaxy--Unveiled
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Samsung mobile sales surge 20%: Touch screens are key growth drivers
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Samsung Rolls Out Jet
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Samsung Provides WiMax Technology for Mobily Network Expansion
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Samsung Crest E1107 Solar Cellphone: Sun-Powered, Dirt Cheap At $59
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Mobily, Samsung sign SAR 375m deal to build largest WiMAX network in the Middle East
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Cryptography Research Announces License Agreement with Samsung for Differential Power Analysis Countermeasures Patents
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Cryptography Research Announces License Agreement with Samsung for Differential Power Analysis Countermeasures Patents
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Samsung Launch STAR Phone to Touch Every Lifestyle
News & Analysis
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Smartphone Bits: Blackberry Tour; Nokia Updated E72, 5530 XpressMusic; Samsung's Touchscreen Jet
Content Next
- 2009-06-16
How competitive is the smartphone market becoming? Following last week's launch of the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre and the iPhone 3GS comes the roll out of Samsung's touchscreen Jet, RIM's 3G Blackberry Tour, and Nokia's E72 and 5530 XpressMusic.RIM: The 3G-enabled Blackberry Tour 9630 will go on sale in...
Is T-Mobile USA's Next Android Device Coming From Samsung?
Content Next
- 2009-06-12
Earlier this month, T-Mobile USA's CTO Cole Brodman told mocoNews that they were on the verge of launching a follow-up device to the T-Mobile G1. The phone, which would operate on Google's Android operating system, was expected to be out in early summer with details of the release coming...
Samsung renews chip licence with SanDisk
Strategy Eye
- 2009-05-26
Korean device manufacturer Samsung has extended its existing chip licence agreement with US storage specialist SanDisk for another seven years. The extension is set at a lower royalty rate than previously and Samsung is committed to shipping a certain amount of its chips to SanDisk. Samsung pays around USD350m...
Anadigics, Inc. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-04-28
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from the line of Anthony Stoss. Anthony Stoss - Craig Hallum Hi, guys. If you wouldn't mind quantifying the high level of design win activity. You mentioned 50 different wins. Is that across all your customer base, or is that Samsung,...
Samsung and Clearwire unveil WiMAX device
Strategy Eye
- 2009-03-31
Samsung is unveiling a new mobile internet device, called Mondi, which it plans to sell through mobile operator Clearwire. In addition to WiFi, the Mondi will support WiMAX, an emerging wide-area technology that aims to provide wireless internet access to entire cities. Clearwire is currently ...
Is Apple Snarfing RAM and all of Samsung's Capacity? [UPDATED]
BNET
- 2009-02-22
According to a report from ThinkEquity Parterns, Apple is snapping up such quantities of RAM chips, in preparation for the next generation iPhone, that there will be a shortage. But not all analysts agree, and there are some things about the story that sound … well, difficult to believe. by...
Report: Mobile Phone Inventories Will Increase As Sales Fall Next Year
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- 2008-12-16
In case it was still unclear whether mobile phone sales will shrink next year, Reuters has published the results of a poll that shows analysts predicting that phone sales will fall at their fastest rate ever and unsold phones will begin piling up in stores. On average, Reuters said...
Report: Motorola's Reign Over The U.S. Market Ends Next Year
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- 2008-12-09
Motorola (NYSE: MOT), – still riding its years-long wave of success from the Razr, will end this year on top once more after selling the most consumer handsets in the U.S., but the dance ends next year, according to a new report from MultiMedia Intelligence. The handset manufacturer is...
Samsung Sees Consumer Electronics Struggling; Will Invest In Smartphones, Low-End Handsets And WiMax
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- 2008-12-09
Technology bellwether Samsung said today that overall demand for consumer electronics is sluggish in the fourth quarter and that sales are likely to decline in 2009, said EVP Woosik Chu, who was speaking today at Samsung's Tech Forum in San Francisco, reports the WSJ. Still, the company sees some...
Panasonic and Samsung invest in wireless communications firm
Strategy Eye
- 2008-12-02
SiBEAM, a developer of wireless communications platforms, has received a strategic investment from Panasonic and Samsung worth an undisclosed amount. The company will use the proceeds to fund ongoing development of semiconductor products with applications in the transmission of high-definition video content. by Jeremy Collum
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
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| Doh Seok Choi | President & CFO |
| Youngsoo Kim | Vice President of Corporate Strategy |
| Tetsuo Iwasaki | Director |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Hak Soo Lee | Vice Chairman & Co-CEO |
| Jong Yong Yun | Vice Chairman & Co-CEO |
| Hak-Soo Lee | Chairman's Office and Head of, Samsung Strategic Planning Office |
| Chae-Woong Lee | Board of Directors |
| Dong-Min Yoon | Board of Directors |
| Goran S. Malm | Board of Directors |
| Jae-Sung Hwang | Board of Directors |
| Jong-Yong Yun | Board of Directors |
| Kun-Hee Lee | Board of Directors |
| Sandip Tiwari | Advisory Board |
| Yoon-Woo Lee | Vice Chairman, Corp Technology Operations & Global Collaboration |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Vice Chairman & Co-CEO | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Vice Chairman & Co-CEO | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | President & CFO | Current |
Youngsoo Kim is Vice President of Corporate Strategy Planning Team of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. a position he has held since January, 2004. In this function he is responsible for the areas of strategic alliance, mergers and acquisitions as well as new business development.
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Vice President of Corporate Strategy | Current |
| Continua Health Alliance | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Chairman's Office and Head of, Samsung Strategic Planning Office | Current |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Chairman & Co-CEO | Former |
| Samsung Group | Chairman | Former |
| Samsung Corporation | Vice Chairman | Former |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Vice Chairman | Former |
| Samsung Group | Board of Directors | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Anvik Corporation | Advisory Board | Current |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Advisory Board | Current |
| Advanced Design Consulting USA, Inc | Advisory Board | Current |
| Textools Communications | Advisory Board | Current |
A founder, chairman and CEO of Applied Materials, Japan and served as the region's president for 10 years. He holds an elected corporate senior vice president position of Applied Materials, Inc and chairman of AKT, a wholly owned subsidiary of Applied Material for TFT-LCD manufacturing equipment business. He also is an outside director Of Samsung Electronics and a member of the advisory board of Toshiba Ceramics, Co, and Development Bank of Japan. He served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan.
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Director | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Samsung Group | Board of Directors | Current |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Vice Chairman, Corp Technology Operations & Global Collaboration | Current |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Vice Chairman, Corp Technology Operations & Global Collaboration | Current |
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