Earlier this year, Samsung beat Intel in the world's top memory chip maker competition, topped the list. In view of Apple itself also uses Samsung chips and screens, so even Apple cell phone enthusiasts, they are all supporting Samsung in the Components business dominance chip and screen will remain Samsung next year's ace business.It is reported that Samsung expects the main earnings will still come from the component business, because the memory market is developing well, the sales of flexible OLED screen is also expected to steadily increase.
However, Samsung can not always rely on semiconductors, and for the next ten years, affordable and affordable manufacturers will catch up with Samsung's current top-of-the-range products, and technology companies will no longer have to pay for Samsung.
This explains why Samsung Electronics plans to acquire more companies by 2018. Young Sohn, president and chief strategy officer of Samsung Electronics, said in an interview last week that the company is "committed to using M & A as a tool." The future focuses on three areas : Automotive, digital health (especially preventative health), and commercial software.A closer look will reveal that Samsung's ace business, which is not on the list, is outside Samsung's comfort zone, even though Young Sohn is in Silicon Valley After hundreds of battle, in these areas are not good at this year in March, Samsung Electronics acquired the U.S. car audio giant Harman (Harman) for 3 billion US dollars, which is the largest deal in Samsung history.In addition, in September Samsung Announced the establishment of a $ 300 million fund to invest in car startups and a business unit focused on self-driving.The government has approved Samsung to test autonomous vehicles in South Korea and California.
In fact, Samsung parent company already produced more than 100,000 vehicles for the Korean market, Samsung executives may know little about it.Samsung Motor was founded in 1994, but the Asian financial crisis quickly paralyzed.Renault Samsung Motors in 2000 It was established in 1998 and now belongs to the French car company.Although Samsung car will not appear on the American road, but Samsung is bound to carry out the reform, cooperation with the car company, for the development of automobile technology subsidiary.Obviously, Samsung urgently needed Find the next 'semiconductor'.