timeline & history
Laying the foundation to become a World Class Company (2005)
| Dec | Received "25 iF Design (Germany) awards" Handset shipments reached over 100 million |
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| Nov | Developed the largest Flexible LCD Panel |
| Oct | Blue-black phone | | (SGH-600) selected as the "Mobile Choice's Phone of the Year" Developed the world's first 70nm DRAM Developed the world's fastest speed graphic DRAM(GDDR4) |
| Sep | Developed the world's first 50nm 16Gb NAND Flash Released the world's first Blue-Ray Home AV Center |
| Aug | Released the world's biggest DLP TV |
| July | Released the world's first 7 mega pixel camera phone |
| June | Accumulated production volume of large LCDs surpassed 100 million units Began upgrading digital audio business to the world's top level Launched a new brand campaign with the theme of "Imagine" Released the first 5 megapixel, 3x optical zoom camera phone Began mass production of 90 nano processed 1 GB DDR2 DRAM |
| May | Developed the world's first OLED for 40" TV Completed and announced standard dimension for 8 th and 9th generation LCD panels Released the first HD class PDP TV with 10000:1 contrast ratio Began mass production of 70 nano processed 4 GB NAND flash memory |
| Apr | Became the official sponsor of Chelsea, the renowned English soccer club |
| Mar | Developed the first HSDPA terminal for commercialization and ultra-high speed HSDPA system Cash payment to more than 15,000 SMEs Developed 82" TFT-LCD Developed 7 megapixel camera phone |
| Feb | Released digital slim TV with the narrowest body depth Released the first notebook PC with embedded terrestrial DMB receiver Samsung Blueblack phone, SGH-D500, was selected as "The Best Handset" at 3GSM global conference in Cannes, France First commercialization of terrestrial DMB phone in Korea Developed DDR3 DRAM Developed the first wrinkle-free steam washer |
| Jan | Developed the first-ever speech recognition phone Developed innovative 8-chip stacking MCP technology Posted more than $10 billion in net profit Became the world's top three companies with the most patents, launched patent- based management |
