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Our R&D investments include the large percentage of our
people involved in new product development, plus the growing
proportion of our revenues we put behind their activities.
48
R&D Expenditures
6.82%
of consolidated sales
2005 5.50 ( 6.82%)
2004 4.90 ( 5.98%)
2003 3.58 ( 5.52%)
in trillions of KRW
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
2003 2004 2005
R&D Innovation
Patent Management
Achieve Top 3 by 2007
US patents filed in 2005:
1 IBM 2,941
2 Canon 1,828
3 HP 1,797
4 Matsushita Electric 1,688
5 Samsung Electronics 1,641
6 Micron 1,561
7 Intel 1,549
(Source: USPTO 2005)
Recent R&D Accomplishments
2005
WiBro system and devices
50nm 16Gb (MLC) NAND flash memory
World’s biggest TFT drive AMOLED
Interactive TV middleware
2004
60nm 8Gb (MLC) NAND flash memory
World’s first satellite DMB phone
5-color MediaLink DLP TV
2003
Dry-type Color Printer
70nm 4Gb (SLC) NAND flash memory
Super high capacity Ni nano materials