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Chip Profits Help Soften Other Losses at Samsung - NYTimes.com 24/01/14
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/25/technology/chip-figures-take-sting-out-of-declining-sales-at-samsung.html

In the marketplace, Samsung Electronics and Apple battle for customers. In the courts, they fight over patents. Yet every time Apple sells an iPhone, Samsung quietly cheers, too.

In addition to being one of Apple’s main competitors, Samsung is one of its top suppliers. Samsung provides the application processor in the iPhone 5S — the brains of Apple’s flagship handset, and one of its most expensive components.

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SAMSUNG’S EVOLUTION : From Fish Trader to Smartphone Maker | Frise chronologique du NYT
▻http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/15/technology/samsung-timeline.html#

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Samsung has its origins as a trading company established in Korea in 1938. It is now one of the largest and most recognizable technology brands in the world.