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47
Talent is the Key to the Future
With quality as our top priority, we will make every attempt to lead in the development of next-generation technologies,
as well as bolster our patent portfolio, wherever possible, around fundamental technologies. We make major invest-
ments in talent, because our superior technological capabilities are the direct result of our people’s continuous
efforts. We look for creative, intelligent, hardworking people from around the world, who are inspired by the unique
challenges of our industry. At the same time, we take care to nurture our existing talent. There are now over 2,700
Ph.D’s in our talent pool, a number we expect to increase significantly in the coming years. We pay particular attention
to the environments our people work in and to the processes through which they interact. It is very important for
people to be able to exchange ideas with each other easily—across disciplines and geographies around the world.
R&D is vital to our success—continuous innovation is the only way to establish
and sustain our competitive edge. Our commitment to this effort is huge.
It is what makes our brand a marketplace icon.
The world’s highest
density NAND flash
has an impressive
16Gb of mobile
storage capacity.
Samsung Electronics
achieved this with
the industry’s first
production use
of 50-nanometer
technology.
The world’s first
single-sheet, 40-inch
OLED (Organic
Light-Emitting
Diode) establishes
Samsung Electronics’
leadership in next-
generation ultra-slim,
ultra sharp flat panel
TVs. It was made
possible by replacing
costly polysilicon
approaches with
standard amorphous
silicon (a-Si)
techniques.