Samsung Moves Toward Globalization of Annual IMID Conference.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 26, 2004 Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics (SEC, Hangul:삼성전자; KSE: 005930, KSE: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is a South Korean multinational corporation and the world's largest and leading electronics and information technology company. Co., Ltd., the world's largest provider of TFT-LCD TFT-LCD Thin Film Transistor - Liquid Crystal Display panels, reported that successful discussions took place today between Sang Wan Lee, president of Samsung's LCD Business, and officials representing leading worldwide display organizations that could result in significant expansion of the annual IMID IMID Immunomodulatory Drug (Celgene) IMID Immune Mediated Inflammatory Disorders (International Meeting on Information Display) exhibition held annually in Korea. The officials met during the SID (Society of Information Display) conference currently taking place in Seattle. These high-level discussions included Shigeo Mikoshiba, SID's president, and Sang Wan Lee, chairman of the Korean Information Display Society (KIDS), which co-hosts IMID with SID this year. Also involved were several top SID officials: former president Allan Kmetz, and vice president Makoto Maeda. In addition, key members of the Korean Information Display Society participated: Yong Bae Kim, former president; Ki Woong Hwang, executive vice president; and Sung Tae Shin, vice president. The meeting was a prelude to a likely expansion in the scope of IMID, highlighted by its emergence as a global event for the display industry. This year's IMID event will take place in Dae Gu, Korea, August 23-27. Demonstrating IMID's increased focus on science and technology, the number of research papers presented at the next event will double - to 120 papers. While SID, held in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. each year, will remain one of the world's largest display conferences, the emergence of Korea as the global leader in the production of displays was a key factor in today's discussions regarding expansion of IMID. Among the topics covered in the high-level meeting was boosting the involvement of SID in IMID to help the event become larger and attract global participation. About Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunications, flat panel display A thin display screen for computer and TV usage. The first flat panels appeared on laptop computers in the mid-1980s, and the LCD technology became the standard. Stand-alone LCD screens became available for desktop computers in the mid-1990s and exceeded sales of CRTs for the first time and digital convergence In the days of the first computers, transaction and company data were the first types of information digitized. Then came text, opening the world to word processing, followed by audio CDs and finally video. technology. Samsung Electronics employs approximately 75,000 people in 89 offices across 47 countries. The company is the world's largest producer of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. mobile phones, memory chips, TFT-LCDs, monitors and VCRs. Samsung Electronics consists of six main business units: Corporate Technology Operations, Digital Media Business, Telecommunication Network Business, Digital Appliance Any apparatus controlled by a computer. It may refer to an actual household appliance (coffee maker, toaster, etc.) that is computerized, but often refers to a handheld device such as a pager, cellphone or PDA. See Internet appliance. Business, Semiconductor Business, and LCD Business. For more information, visit http://www.samsung.com. |
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