Research & development expenditure at Samsung Electronics 2009-2021

The levels of research & development expenditure at Samsung Electronics between 2009 and 2021 has been increasing. The official figures were published in South Korean won. The sums in U.S. dollars have solely been provided to aid in the understanding of the statistic and are not official figures from the Samsung corporation. In 2021, total spending on research and development at Samsung Electronics amounted to approximately 22.6 trillion South Korean won. Samsung R&D spendingSamsung, a global leader in semiconductors, telecommunications and digital media technologies, spent nearly 14 billion U.S. dollars on research and development in 2014. This amount is considerably higher than the 2009 figure, when Samsung spent around seven billion U.S. dollars on research and development. Their expenditure has almost doubled. Samsung’s investment manifests, for example, in the more than six thousand U.S. patents as of 2020. Only IBM has more patents, while spending 6.3 billion U.S. dollars on research and development. Investment in R&DSoftware and computer services companies, and technology hardware and equipment companies tend to invest heavily on research and development. In the last few years, companies from these two industrial sectors spent, on average, about eight to 12 percent of their total revenue on R&D. In the electronics and electrical appliances industry – another market in which Samsung has a strong presence – companies invest about four to five percent of their revenues in R&D. In 2021, Samsung invested more than nine percent of its total global revenue on research and development.

2009年至2021年间，三星电子的研发支出水平持续上升。官方数据以韩元为单位公布。提供的美元金额仅用于辅助理解统计数据，并非三星公司官方数据。2021年，三星电子在研发上的总支出约为226万亿韩元。作为半导体、电信和数字媒体技术领域的全球领导者，三星在2014年的研发支出近140亿美元。这一数额远高于2009年的约70亿美元研发支出，其支出几乎翻倍。三星的投资体现在诸多方面，例如截至2020年，其拥有超过6000项美国专利。仅IBM的专利数量更多，其在研发上的支出为63亿美元。在软件和计算机服务公司以及技术硬件和设备公司中，研发投资往往较为密集。在过去的几年里，这两个工业领域的公司平均将总收入的8%至12%投入研发。在电子和电器行业——三星在该市场具有显著影响力的领域——公司平均将约4%至5%的收入投入研发。2021年，三星将其超过9%的总全球收入投入到研发中。