Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics is a leader in the IDM segment of the semiconductor & AI supply chain, headquartered in Suwon, KR. Its key suppliers include Shin-Etsu Chemical, SUMCO, GlobalWafers. Its key customers include NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Ambarella.

World's largest memory maker, plus leading-edge foundry and Exynos design.

Ticker
KRX: 005930
Headquarters
Suwon, KR
Revenue
$243.9B (FY2025) · +10.9% YoY
Net income
$32.4B
Operating margin
52.2%
Market position
leader
Value-chain segment
Integrated Device Manufacturer, DRAM, NAND, HBM, Foundry Services
Key products
DRAM, NAND, HBM, foundry services

About Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics, headquartered in South Korea, operates in the Integrated Device Manufacturer and DRAM and NAND and HBM and Foundry Services segments of the semiconductor & AI supply chain and is positioned as a market leader there. Its key products include DRAM, NAND, HBM, foundry services. wafergraph maps 215 tracked suppliers and 17 tracked customers for Samsung Electronics across the value chain. It has a supply-chain criticality score of 81/100, with 235 companies downstream of it. Samsung Electronics is a party to 2 tracked deals, including Samsung's Taylor, Texas fab; Samsung CHIPS Act grant.

Role in the chain

Samsung Electronics is a market leader in IDM (Integrated Device Manufacturer), headquartered in South Korea. World's largest memory maker, plus leading-edge foundry and Exynos design.

Diligence questions

  1. The dataset records 215 tracked suppliers for Samsung Electronics. Which of those edges are researched (named in a filing or primary source) versus segment-inferred, and what happens if one of them stops shipping?
  2. 54 of Samsung Electronics's tracked suppliers are a monopoly or leader (including Ajinomoto, ASML, Carl Zeiss SMT, Lasertec). Which of those are actually single-source for the process step you care about?
  3. The dataset names 17 tracked customers for Samsung Electronics. How concentrated is demand among those names, and which of them have a documented second source in this graph?
  4. Samsung Electronics is positioned as a leader in IDM. How replaceable is this vendor on the process step you are buying?
  5. Samsung Electronics is headquartered in South Korea. What jurisdiction, export-control or logistics risk sits at that HQ, versus at the fabs or plants the filings actually name?
  6. Samsung Electronics trades as KRX:005930. What does the latest reported period say about capacity and backlog versus the graph position above?

Full diligence pack for Samsung Electronics

Key products

  • DRAM
  • NAND
  • HBM
  • foundry services

Suppliers

Customers

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Sources

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Cite as: wafergraph, “Samsung Electronics — supply chain, financials & market position”, https://wafergraph.com/company/samsung (data as of 2026-09-05).

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