CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE A WIDE-RANGING COMPANY CHAPTER TWO FOUNDATIONAL YEARS CHAPTER THREE FAMILY AND FRIENDS CHAPTER FOUR RISE OF THE COMPUTER CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN BUILDING ON SUCCESS CHAPTER EIGHT SURVIVING A CRISIS CHAPTER NINE LOOKING TO THE FUTURE CHANGE IN CORPORATE CULTURE 42 BECOMING AN INDUSTRY LEADER 52 TIMELINE 98 SOURCE NOTES ESSENTIAL FACTS 100 INDEX GLOSSARY 102 ABOUT THE AUTHOR ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 104 4 16 26 36 64 76 86 106 110 112
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A WIDE-RANGING COMPANY the South Korean company Samsung is best known to consumers for its smartphones and TVs But those are only some of the products Samsung produces At the Consumer Electronics Show CES in January 2018 the company put on view a wide range of new products and applications TVs software kitchen appliances speakers and medical devices were all on display TVS AND DISPLAYS One of the products that gained the most attention was a TV that Samsung called The Wall It had a whopping 146-inch 371 cm screen 1 The large screen was made up of smaller modules The number of modules can Virtual reality headsets were among the high-tech gadgets that Samsung showed off at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show 5
