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Expanded investment in R&D in 2000 enhanced our ability to
proacti vely respond to changing markets and customer requirements. We
invested 1.8 billion won or 5.3% of sales—a 12.5% year-on-year increase
in mone- tary terms—in developing tomorrow’s digital network techno-
logies at our nine-center global R&D network. Our staff of 13,000
engineers was hard at work adding links to the value chain and acquiring
key Internet techno- logies as it created new convergence products and
enhanced our capability to leverage the latest developments in the rapidly
changing digital landscape.
Building on accomplishments in recent years that have included
participation in the development of the 4.7 GB DVD specification and
the contribution of three MPEG-2 technologies to the MPEG-LA patent
pool, we continued to steadily move from standard-adopter to standard-
maker by contributing a technology specification for digital image comp-
ression to the MPEG-4 patent pool in 2000 as we accelerated our
pioneering development work in the 3G mobile communications and
double-data-rate DRAM fields. These efforts helped us win 1,442 US
patents during the year, making us the No. 4 innovator in the world’s
biggest technology market for a third consecutive year.
Individually and collectively, the achievements mentioned above have
helped set the stage for the next phase of our corporate growth—value
innovation. We expect our Digital -Company strategy launched in late
2000 to have a profound impact on our bottom line in 2001 as we focus
our considerable resources on creating tomorrow’s digital technologies and
solutions as well as building a cutting-edge global supply chain manage-
ment system that’ll rapidly move us toward our goal of leading the digital
convergence revolution.
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