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38
Financial Highlight
(consolidated)
Samsung Electronics’ Semiconductor Business surpassed
its competitors in market share and profitability by focusing
strategically on being first to market with innovative, value-added
products. Our ability to respond to the rapidly evolving IT market
has come from multiple factors: technology leadership achieved
through aggressive R&D regardless of industry cyclicity; timely
investments in advanced facilities; keen market insight; intuitive
and timely decision-making; proactive market creation; synergies
generated between our memory and system LSI semiconductor
technologies; and our broad line-up of core components, from
semiconductors to disk storage. Samsung Electronics stays ahead
by creating solutions to realize innovative products with exciting
new features than can make them big hits in the marketplace.
These elements have propelled the division toward future business
opportunities. Introduction of digital technology is changing the
semiconductor environment. The application paradigm is shifting
from PCs to mobile devices and digital consumer products. Just
like DRAM, NAND flash memory is expected to fuel further growth
in the IT industry. We will continue to add to our market leading
positions in DRAMs, SRAMs, flash memories, display driver ICs,
and multi-chip packages. We will pioneer innovative developments
in set applications such as SSD-mounted notebooks, as well
as introduce new technologies such as phase-change random
access memory (PRAM). In the coming year and beyond, our
business will increase its focus on marketing premium products.
As a global industry leader, we are further concentrating our
resources on building core competencies on the mobile and digital
consumer fronts.
Memory Samsung Electronics, the market leader in numerous
memory product areas, updated our record of decade-long market
leadership once again. In 2005, we marked the top market share in
DRAM for a fourteenth straight year with over 30% market share.
We continued steadfast to unlock the potential of our NAND flash
memory products, exploring applications beyond USB drives, MP3
DDR2 SDRAM
We announced the industry’s first
70-nanometer DDR2 memory
chip featuring a proprietary three -
dimensional “recessed channel array
transistor” design. Samsung continues
its lead in DRAMs, introducing
generation after generation of
advanced DRAM technology.
CMOS Image Sensor
The industry’s first 7.2-Megapixel CMOS image
sensor with the smallest 2.25µm pixel size. Higher
resolution CIS chips reflect the industry-wide
focus on CIS technology as a promising new
imaging technology as well as a feasible replacement
for charge-coupled device (CCD), especially in
mobile applications such as camera phones, digital
still cameras, and digital camcorders.
World’s First Products
Net sales
Operating Profits
2004 7.77 trillion of KRW
2005 5.41 trillion of KRW
2005 20.33 trillion of KRW
2004 20.21 trillion of KRW