Jay Y. Lee李在镕
Samsung Electronics
Executive Chairman
South KoreaJay Y. Lee, male, South Korean national, born June 1968, a native of Seoul, South Korea, began his career in 1991, holds a master's degree in business administration. He is the Chairman of Samsung Electronics.
- 1988–1992Studied East Asian history at Seoul National University in South Korea, earning a bachelor's degree
- 1991–2001Held positions in the General Affairs Group and other departments of Samsung Electronics(During this period: 1992–1995, studied business administration as a master's student at Keio University in Japan, earning a master's degree; 1996–2000, studied in the doctoral program in business administration at Harvard Business School in the United States (did not graduate))
- 2001–2007Served successively as Assistant Vice President and Vice President in the Corporate Planning Group of Samsung Electronics
- 2007–2009Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer of Samsung Electronics
- 2009–2010Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Samsung Electronics
- 2010–2012President and Chief Operating Officer of Samsung Electronics
- 2012–2022Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics(During this period: 2016–2019, served as a registered director of the company)
- 2022–presentChairman of Samsung Electronics
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Memory, HBM and foundry challenger at scale.
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- 4Jun 12, 2026 · South KoreaSamsung and SK Hynix Surge Near Daily Limit, Memory Chip Sector Strengthens, Biwin Storage Hits New High
- 3Jun 10, 2026 · JapanSamsung Heavy Industries recruits Greek shipowner and Supermicro to bring 50MW floating AI data centers to market — can be powered by solid oxide fuel cells running on liquefied natural gas
- 2Jun 10, 2026 · South KoreaSamsung Elec considers building chip packaging plant, Economic Daily says
- 1Jun 8, 2026 · SeoulSamsung Elec's chip chief says he discussed next-generation foundry with Nvidia CEO
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Samsung and SK Hynix Surge Near Daily Limit, Memory Chip Sector Strengthens, Biwin Storage Hits New High
South Korean memory chip giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix saw their stock prices surge near the daily trading limit during intraday trading, boosting the overall memory chip sector. In China's A-share market, Biwin Storage also hit a new all-time high. Market expectations of a recovery in memory chip demand have strengthened, driving active performance in related stocks.
Researchers say they trained a foundation model from scratch for about $1,500
Researchers at Sapient developed HRM-Text, using a Hierarchical Recurrent Model architecture, training a 1B-parameter foundation model from scratch for about $1,500 with only instruction-response pairs. The model achieves competitive performance with much larger open models, dramatically reducing pretraining costs and enabling organizations with limited resources to train their own reasoning models.
Samsung Heavy Industries recruits Greek shipowner and Supermicro to bring 50MW floating AI data centers to market — can be powered by solid oxide fuel cells running on liquefied natural gas
Samsung Heavy Industries, in partnership with a Greek shipowner and Supermicro, plans to launch 50MW floating AI data centers powered by solid oxide fuel cells using liquefied natural gas. Separately, Japan's MOL is building a 73MW floating data center with Karpowership for deployment in 2027.
Samsung Elec considers building chip packaging plant, Economic Daily says
According to the Economic Daily, Samsung Electronics is considering building a new chip packaging plant to strengthen its competitiveness in semiconductor manufacturing. The plant will focus on advanced packaging technologies, a key step to enhance chip performance and efficiency. This move reflects Samsung's continued investment in the semiconductor business amid global chip demand fluctuations and intensifying competition. Specific investment scale and location have not been announced, but analysts suggest it could be in South Korea or overseas.
Samsung Elec's chip chief says he discussed next-generation foundry with Nvidia CEO
Samsung Electronics' co-CEO and head of its chip division, Jun Young-hyun, said on Monday he discussed cooperation in next-generation foundry chips with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a meeting in Seoul. The meeting comes as Samsung seeks to catch up with TSMC in advanced chip manufacturing, and Nvidia's potential partnership is crucial for Samsung's foundry business.
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