Samsung''s new R&D Budget: $45 Billion (US);

The Samsung Group, parent company to Samsung the memory chip makers and Samsung Electronics, are planning on spending a whopping $45 Billion (US) on research and development over the next five years. Concentrating their efforts on the semiconductor, display, mobile electronics and electronics fields alike, Samsung is investing in the areas they see as the highest growth sectors of the future. Their long term goal is to provide the best product available in the world, and with targeted year 2010 sales expectations to meet $270 Trillion (US) and mobile phone sales to double by the same time, they’d better hope they employ only the best in their research field (And possibly the best marketing/sales team too!). As an avid gamer, I’d love to sneak a peak into the future and see what Samsung would have in store for us. Interactive screens? RAM so fast even the software can’t keep up? Mobile phones that make you coffee? Oh, what the future has in store for us!