Samsung Electronics: version 1

Saved 2026-09-13 15:37 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added **Samsung SpinPoint P120 SP2014N 200 GB** (08808979495238), taken from the wanted list, plus stubs brand/samsung, company/samsung-electronics and family/spinpoint-p120. - **Identity:** the barc. This is the current version.

Source of v1

# Samsung Electronics <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Samsung Electronics
legal_name: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
country: KR
website: https://www.samsung.com
founded: 1969-01-13
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------ | ------ | ---- |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                          | type  | locale | from | until |
| ----------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | legal |        |      |       |
| Samsung Electric Industries   | name  |        | 1969 |       |
| 삼성전자                          | name  | ko     |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref          | url                                                                                              | title                                                    | accessed   | publisher | kind        | published  | record_id | locator              | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | ---------- | --------- | -------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| wiki-samsung | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Electronics                                                | Samsung Electronics                                      | 2026-09-13 | Wikipedia | publication |            |           | History; Hard-drives | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
| engadget     | https://www.engadget.com/2011-04-19-samsung-sells-hdd-division-to-seagate-for-1-375-billion.html | Samsung sells HDD division to Seagate for $1.375 billion | 2026-09-13 | Engadget  | publication | 2011-04-19 |           |                      |              |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
Samsung Electronics is a South Korean consumer electronics company based in Suwon. It was founded on 13 January 1969 as Samsung Electric Industries, part of the Samsung Group.[^wiki-samsung] Its storage business made SpinPoint hard disk drives until 2011, when it sold its hard disk drive operations to Seagate Technology for cash and a stake of about 9.6 % in Seagate.[^wiki-samsung][^engadget]
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