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Samsung seeks to reinvent itself in Silicon Valley
08 октября 2012 |
Samsung Electronics is planning to open several innovation centers outside South Korea as part of a project to reinvent the company and ride the next wave of business and consumer-driven opportunities, according to Young Sohn, Samsung's newly-appointed chief strategy officer.
One of the first such centers will be on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, the heart of California's Silicon Valley. Sohn revealed the plan on Thursday (Oct. 4) during a talk at the International Electronics Forum here, organized by consultancy Future Horizons.
Sohn, was previously a senior advisor to Silver Lake Partners and prior to that
was CEO of startup Inphi Corp. Sohn serves on the boards of directors of
processor IP company ARM Holdings (Cambridge, England) and EUV laser source
company Cymer Inc. (San Diego).
Sohn said one of the things his role at Samsung requires is that he looks at
how large organizations innovate. He referenced successful examples including
Apple, Lockheed with its Skunk Works and Sun Microsystems with Java. One of
common characteristics was that relatively small teams had been allowed to
innovate away from operational pressures, Sohn said.
"We're opening an innovation center in Silicon Valley, away from Korea,
away from the mothership. We'll be looking at the Cloud, at big data. We also
have a center in Israel." He added: "We're reaching out to global
talent but it is also about culture and business innovation."
Part of Sohn's talk to assembled executives here made the observation that the
Cloud – where data and applications are hosted in large datacenters – is
already changing the hierarchy of major IT companies and that even bigger
changes are set to come in the next five years.
"Companies such as Facebook and Google are designing their own hardware,
partly because they can and partly because their needs are different,"
said Sohn, indicating that this is creating an opportunity in microserver
architecture. "Enterprise computing was driven by the traditional
hierarchy of companies; IBM, Dell and so on. Now there is a Cloud-driven
micro-architecture, microserver, which we think will be ARM-based.
Источник: EeTimes
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