Samsung's History

2000-Present Pioneering the Digital Age

The digital age has brought revolutionary change – and opportunity – to global business, and Samsung has responded with advanced techno-logies, competitive products, and constant innovation.
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

2009	Displayed the world’s thinnest TV (6.5mm) at CES Launched major restructuring of its businesses Cooperates in creating a foundry with Xilinx of the US Developed the world’s first 40 nanometer DRAM Announced its “Blue Earth” solar-powered phone Released its V-line Crystal Rose LCD TV Samsung is found No. 1 in customer loyalty for 8 years consecutively by Brand Keys of the USA Samsung Digital Imaging developed an innovative hybrid digital camera Built the world’s largest mobile phone as recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records Received a “Quality Management Award” in Malaysia SADI, Samsung's design school, received the most iF Concept Design Awards for its entrants Opened “samsungmobile.com” for its domestic customers Received an Excellence Award from ENERGY STAR of the US Released the world’s thinnest Blu-ray player Introduced Mobile WiMax into Malaysia Released the world’s first full HD camcorder with a 64GB SSD Sold more than 20 million full touch phones in shortest time ever Samsung took up a record high market share in LCD monitors Released the world’s first solar -powered mobile phone in India Released the “JET,” its new concept full touch screen phone Released its 120Hz 3D monitor Samsung took the No. 1 spot in the global digital sign market for the first time Sold 500,000 units of its LED TVs in 100 days since its release Opened the “visual mobile” era with its third generation full touch Haptic AMOLED Released the world’s first infrared video phone Became the first in the industry to acquire TCO 3.0 certification for its notebook computers Announced its “Green Management” strategy Began mass production of the world’s first 40 nanometer DDR3 DRAM Released the world’s thinnest watch phone Developed the world’s lowest power 1GHz mobile CPU core Opened Samsung Application Store Seller Site Attained its most awards ever at IDEA 2009 Released its strategic smart phone, the OmniaⅡ Samsung's Yuna Haptic sold 500,000 units in record time Became the first in the industry to sell more than 10 million LCD TVs in the first half of the year Samsung won the chairmanship of the 3GPP international standardization association Sold more than 5 million of its STAR full touch phones in 4 months Samsung’s Application Store officially opened Released the “Corby” full touch phone targeted at younger users Provided the WorldSkills Calgary 2009 Competition support Installed the world’s largest video wall in the US Released the first large capacity 16kg automatic washing machine in the domestic market Samsung's “Mondi” WiMax terminal receives “Best Product” at the 4G Awards Entered the top 10 list in the world’s top 100 global brands Samsung was selected as one of the top 10 global businesses in responding to climate change Samsung TVs took 50% of the Iranian market Introduced its R&D master system Released the “Giorgio Armani” smart phone Sold more than 5 million LCD panels for notebooks per month for the first in the industry Developed a 240Hz 3D LCD panel Received the 2009 LCD TV Market Leadership Award Deploys its brand memory card business Reached the world’s first LTE terminal supply agreement Developed the world’s thinnest 3mm LED TV panel Samsung successfully tested WiMax global roaming Samsung’s LED TV won “TV of the Year” in Britain Declared its “Creative Company” strategy for the next 100 years Passed 4 trillion won in operating profits for its 40th year of foundation Introduced a “Creative New Employee” hiring system Developed the world’s first 0.6mm 8 chip package Sold 10 million STAR phones in six months of its release Announced its open mobile platform, “bada” Became the first in the industry to sell more than 4 million LCD panels for TVs per month Supported the hosting of the WCG final Launched a VIP membership program Sold 50 million full touch screen phones in 2 years Samsung's printing solutions won product of the year in the US Announced “bada” its own smart phone platform Samsung successfully commercialized its 4th generation LTE terminal Restructured its organization and appointed Gee-Sung Choi as its new CEO Sales of Samsung “Yuna Haptic” phones broke the threshold of 1 million Became No. 1 in the US digital TV market for the 4th consecutive year
2008	Named Yoon-Woo Lee as a Vice Chairman & CEO of Samsung Electronics Launched OMNIA phone Completed establishing TV manufactory in Russia Kaluga 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 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