Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd. is a South Korean multinational electronics corporation headquartered in Suwon, South Korea. It is the world’s largest manufacturer of consumer electronics products by revenue, including mobile phones, tablets, digital displays, televisions, digital cameras, memory chips, home appliances, batteries, and semiconductors. It has been the world’s largest technology company by revenue since 2009.

The company was founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a small trading company. Over the next three decades, the company expanded into a variety of industries, including textiles, food processing, and insurance. In the 1960s, Samsung began to focus on electronics, and by the 1970s, it had become one of the world’s leading manufacturers of televisions and other electronic products.

Samsung continued to grow rapidly in the 1980s and 1990s, and by the early 2000s, it had become the world’s largest manufacturer of semiconductors. The company’s success was due in part to its focus on innovation and its ability to adapt to changing market conditions. Samsung has also been a major beneficiary of the global electronics boom, which has been driven by the increasing demand for mobile devices and other electronic products.