Samsung

Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate whose electronics division, Samsung Electronics, is the world’s largest memory chipmaker and second-largest semiconductor foundry by revenue as of early 2026. The company reported full-year 2025 consolidated revenue of KRW 300.9 trillion, with its Device Solutions division contributing over 40% of operating profit, driven by high-bandwidth memory (HBM) shipments that more than doubled year-on-year. In Q4 2025, Samsung held a 19.2% share of global smartphone unit shipments, according to IDC. Its foundry business began risk production of 2-nanometer gate-all-around chips at the Hwaseong campus in late 2025, with mass production ramping in early 2026. The Pyeongtaek campus, the world’s largest single-site memory fabrication complex by monthly wafer output, expanded EUV capacity to support 12-nanometer-class DRAM. Samsung matters now because its ability to scale advanced logic and HBM3E memory directly shapes the AI infrastructure supply chain, while its status as the only non-Taiwanese firm capable of leading-edge logic manufacturing makes it indispensable to global semiconductor resilience strategies.