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Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will merge its mobile and consumer electronics divisions, the firm said yesterday, naming new co-chief executives in the biggest reshuffle since 2017 to simplify its structure and focus on the logic chip business.
Two co-chief executives, instead of three, will lead the South Korean firm as it pivots on the two business pillars of chips and consumer devices, including smartphones, to help lead the next phase of growth and boost competitiveness.
Samsung, whose Galaxy flagship brand helped it become the world’s biggest smartphone maker by volume, is seeking to revive slowing mobile growth, whose profit contribution shrank to 21 percent last quarter from nearly 70 percent at its peak in early 2010s.
Instead, its component business, led by chips, has become the most profitable, helped by a boom in data storage and a recent shortage of global semiconductor supplies.
The business generated nearly three-quarters of Samsung’s 15.8 trillion won (US$13.4 billion) operating profit last quarter.
Samsung said Han Jong-hee, the head of visual display business, will become a co-CEO, leading the newly merged division spanning mobile and consumer electronics as well as continuing to lead the television business.
Han has risen through the ranks in Samsung’s visual display business, without experience in mobile.
It is not immediately clear what changes or divisions of labor were expected under Han. But analysts said the reshuffle could help Samsung tackle challenges such as offering seamlessly connected services between its smartphones and home appliances.
“In the long term, the biggest challenge is forming a platform of Samsung’s own,” said Lee Jae-yun, an analyst at Yuanta Securities Korea.
“Those businesses have to keep increasing connectivity between devices, but so far it hasn’t been able to create a lasting platform with presence.”
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