Samsung

From its inception as a small export business in Taegu, Korea, SAMSUNG has grown to become one of the world’s leading electronics companies, specializing in digital appliances and media, semiconductors, memory, and system integration. Today SAMSUNG’s innovative and top quality products and processes are world recognized. This timeline captures the major milestones in SAMSUNG’s history, showing how the company expanded its product lines and reach, grew its revenue and market share, and has followed its mission of making life better for consumers around the world.

At SAMSUNG, we see every challenge as an opportunity and believe we are perfectly positioned as one of the world’s recognized leaders in the digital technology industry.
Our commitment to being the world’s best has won us the No.1 global market share for 13 of our products, including semiconductors, TFT-LCDs, monitors and CDMA mobile phones. Looking forward, we’re making historic advances in research and development of our overall semiconductor line, including flash memory and non-memory, custom semiconductors, DRAM and SRAM, as well as producing best-in-class LCDs, mobile phones, digital appliances, and more.

2000-Present Pioneering the Digital Age 2008
Named Yoon-Woo Lee as a Vice Chairman & CEO of Samsung Electronics
Launched OMNIA phone
Completed establishing TV manufactory in Russia Kaluga州
Became the official sponsor of 2010 Guangzhou Asian Game
Developed the world’s first 2Gb 50 NANO
Samsung takes No. 1 spot in U.S. cellphone market
Opened Global Brand PR Center ‘Samsung D’light’
No.1 worldwide market share position for TVs achieved for the 9th quarter in a row

2007
No.1 worldwide market share position for TVs achieved for the seventh quarter in a row
Developed the world’s first 30nm-class 64Gb NAND Flash™ memory
BlackJack bestowed the Best Smart Phone award at CTIA in the U.S.
Attained No.1 worldwide market share position for LCD for the sixth year in a row

2006
Developed the world’s first real double-sided LCD
Developed the worlds’ first 50nm 1G DRAM
Unveiled 10M pixel camera phone
Launched “Stealth Vacuum,” a vacuum cleaner with the world’s lowest level of noises
Launched the worlds’ first Blu-Ray Disc Player
Developed 1.72″Super-Reflective LCD Screen

2005
Developed the largest Flexible LCD Panel
Ranked 27th in “the World’s Most Admired Company” of Fortune
Became the official sponsor of Chelsea, the renowned English soccer club
Released the world’s first 7 mega pixel camera phone
Developed the world’s first OLED for 40″ TV
Became the official sponsor of Chelsea, the renowned English soccer club
Developed the first-ever speech recognition phone

2004
Produced the first wrinkle-free steam washer
Sold more than 20 million cellular phones in the U.S
Developed the world’s first 60-nano 8GB NAND Flash memory chip
Ranked top in mobile phone sales in Russia
Released new PDP TV featuring the highest contrast ratio in the world
Developed a 3rd Generation Optical Blu-Ray Disc Recorder
Developed cellular phone chip for satellite DMB system
Released 46″ LCD TV for the first time in the world

2003
SAMSUNG brand value ranked 25th in the world by Interbrand
Ranked 5th on the “Most Admired Electronics Company” list released by the Fortune Magazine
Released the first HD DVD combo

2002
Development of the 54″TFT-LCD, the largest digital TV monitor in the world
Launches PDP-TV, the slimmest in the world
Launch of color mobile phones in which the new concept UFB-LCD is introduced
Launched new high-definition TFT-LCD color cellular phone

2001
Ranked No. 1 of world’s Top 100 IT Companies by BusinessWeek
Unveils 16 Chord Progression Melody Phone
Begins Mass Production of 512Mb Flash Memory Device
Unveils Industry’s First Ultra-Slim Handset
Develops World’s first 40 inch TFT-LCD

2000
Unveils TFT-LCD with Record-breaking Definition
Launches PDA phone
SAMSUNG Olympic Games Phone selected as the official mobile phone of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
TV Phone and Watch Phone Make Guinness Book of World Records
Unveils the Worlds Fastest Graphics Memory Chip
SAMSUNG Electronics and Yahoo! Form Strategic Alliance
Develops Unique All-in-one DVD Player
Developed world’s first 512Mb DRAM
Developed world’s first 512Mb DRAM