Interesting, it's an operating division with its own CEO? I've never heard of that before, but it could well be the case. Certainly, the corporate structure of Samsung is highly complex. I can say from personal experience that working between the foundry side and the electronics side is challenging because their interests are often not well aligned.

It's apples to oranges in any case. Comparing revenues of an OEM, to a fabful CPU manufacturer, to a foundry is just weird and makes little sense. I don't know what point you were trying to make.

For your information, here is a breakdown of Samsung Semi which includes all of the semiconductor businesses of interest, but is not Samsung Electronics (especially as referred to within the corporation), which is the OEM. Look at their products list, it does not include Cell Phones, Tablets, Wearables, PCs, Dishwashers, etc.

https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/about-us/business-over...

No, Samsung Electronics is the parent company of Samsung Semiconductor. I guess the consumer facing website is throwing you off. May I suggest Wikipedia to start instead?

Yeah, no. If that's your source of information, it's hopeless. You need to look at VP org-charts (and maybe know which are highschool friends) to see the power structure. Here's a public list of recent changes: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20201204000678

It doesn't address the key issue that I brought up which is that comparing operating profits of radically different company/conglomerates doesn't make any sense, while (whether it's called SLSI or SamsungSemi, a name I've never heard used in Gumi/Suwan) comparing a subset of SEC (a name which internally only refers to the OEM side) would at least be comparing honeycrisp to grannysmith.

SLSI is the internal acronym used to discuss the whole of Samsung Semi whether for historical or political reasons. Certainly, a quick search shows other news sources get this correct. I don't think that naming is really so complicated or controversial to those in the industry.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/google-pixel-6-and-pixel-6-p...

I do this for a living man. You are wrong.

I can't figure out where you're coming from. I hope it's on the finance side, or maybe that's even worse since my point is that the parent's conclusion may correct, but the comparison's gibberish. You've never responded to that.

I haven't been to Korea for 18 months, but I've traded those same business cards since 2002. Your confidence seems misplaced.

Yes the parent financial comparison is of course wrong but I can assure you Samsung’s SLSI, memory, and consumer electronics divisions share a parent company and the name of that company is Samsung electronics