2011년 5월 1일 일요일

History of Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics is one of the largest electronics comapany in the world and is the biggest electronics company is South Korea. Samsung Electronics is the representative company in Samsung.
Samsung's representative products are Galaxy S, Galaxy Tab, LED/LCD TV, etc.
Samsung started in 1938 with clothes and foods but later in 1969, Samsung Electronics established.
One year later, Samsung-NCE was established, then AV equipments and white goods.
 In 1973, Samsung Electronics moved head office to SuWon-si.
In 1974, they began semiconductor business, And also Samsung started to make refrigerator and washing machine. In 1980, took over Korea Telecommunication. In 1978, established sale subsidiary in US and after few months, the company exports exceeded imports by $100 million. The period from 1977 to 1979 was rapid growth time.
 In 1983, Samsung's founder, Lee Byung Chul announced 'Tokyo Declaration' that enter to DRAM(dynamic random access memory) business and one year after, in 1983, Samsung became the 3rd comapany(country) in the world that developed the 64k DRAM after the United States and Japan predecessors. And also at same year, started producing personal computer. One year later, the company changed the original name to "Samsung Electronics Co." In 1986, it developed 1M DRAM, and four years later, developed 4M Mask Rom. The period from 1983 to 1990 was the time that Samsung Electronics focused on exports and foreign countries.
 In 1992, Samsung developed '64M DRAM' at the firtst in the world. 2 years later, the company developed 256M DRAM at the first in the world again. 2 years later, in 1996, the company developed 1G DRAM at the first in the world. In 1998, it developed 'High Definition Digital VCR' '256M DRAM(2G)' '64M Lambus DRAM Module' a first. The period from 1991 to 1998 was the time that accomplished a lot as world's first.
In 1999, Samsung developed 256 DRAM and TV Phone and one year later, get the world's first TL9000 attestation. Two years later, in 2002, they announced new brand, Hauzen, which produced high grade white goods. In 2003, Samsung's Flash-Memory became the world's first.
 In 2004, Samsung established SLCD with sony. By total accounts of 2004, Samsung signed in Ten Billion Dollar Club. After 2006, that Samsung entered TV business, Samsung became top in World's TV Market.
Samsung had emphasized innovation in its management strategy since the early 2000s and it again highlighted innovation as part of core strategies when it announced the Vision 2020 in which the company set an ambitious goal of reaching the $400-billion sales revenue within 10 years. In order to cement its leadership in the areas of memory chip and TV production, Samsung has invested aggressively in research and development. The company currently has 24 R&D centers around the world. In the 2010 Business Week innovation ranking, Apple Computer and Google retained the leading positions as in the 2009 list, followed by Microsoft, which gained one notch from 2009's fourth place.
 Samsung's main products are TV, Computer, Semiconductor, 3D, LED/LCD, Smart phone, Camera, DRAM, Refrigerator, etc..
Samsung has been the top at TV market for many years and keep making best-seller products. And also it has been the top for 4 years at world's market share by selling 310000000 TVs.
Samsung's representative smart phone is Galaxy S. This phone is one of the smart phones that can substitute IPhone. Galaxy S was awarded at 2010 EISA Awards.
The semiconductor makes Samsung the top company. Samsung has kept the title of the world's largest memory chip maker.
 Samsung will has been developing itself. I believe that As Lee kun hee,chair man of Samsung, stay in Samsung, Samsung would never be dishonored.

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