I.A.T.E.C. Computer College, Inc.
Sta. Rita, Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
A Case Study
Presented to the Faculty of Engineering
As Partial Fulfillment in Engineering Management
Submitted by:
Geminiano M. Cordero Jr.
Nico S. Sajul
Charlie M. Fanoga
Jakeson S. Javier
Jonh Phillip N. Fransisco
Submitted to:
Engr. Robert Belarmino Ramos
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I.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
According to the founder of Samsung Group, the meaning of the Korean hanja word
Samsung (三星) is "tristar" or "three stars". The word "three" represents something "big, numerous and powerful"; the "stars" mean eternity.
A. History
1. 1969 to 2000
Samsung Electric Industries was established as a subsidiary of Samsung Group in 1969 in
Suwon, South Korea. Its early products were electronic and electrical appliances including televisions, calculators, refrigerators, air conditioners and washing machines. In 1970, Samsung
Group established another subsidiary, Samsung-NEC, jointly with Japan's NEC Corporation to manufacture home appliances and audiovisual devices. In 1974, the group expanded into the semiconductor business by acquiring Korea Semiconductor, one of the first chip-making facilities in the country at the time. The acquisition of Korea Telecommunications, an electronic switching system producer, was completed at the start of the next decade in 1980.
By 1981, Samsung Electric Industries had manufactured over 10 million black-and-white televisions. In February 1983, Samsung's founder, Lee Byung-chull, made an announcement later dubbed the "Tokyo declaration," in which he declared that Samsung intended to become a
DRAM (dynamic random access memory) vendor. One year later, Samsung became the third company in the world to develop a 64kb DRAM.] In 1988, Samsung Electric Industries merged with Samsung Semiconductor & Communications to form Samsung Electronics.
Samsung