'Samsung's India R&D leads global product engineering'

Indian engineering backs core smartphone development, second-biggest revenue generator

- Shouvik Das [e-mail]

Jong Bum Park, president and chief executive of Samsung Southwest Asia.

Samsung’s India research & development (R&D) arm is the company’s most influential engineering team outside of its global headquarters in South Korea and alongside the US, a top company executive told Mint on Tuesday.

According to Jong Bum Park, president and chief executive of Samsung Southwest Asia, Samsung's India engineering operations account for the core development process of its second-largest revenue generator—smartphones. In FY24, Samsung generated $219 billion in revenue globally—of which 38% came from smartphones.

The company’s semiconductor division, largely based out of the US and Korea, is its highest revenue generator.

"The entire camera unit and its software for our flagship smartphones were developed and engineered entirely in India," said Park in an interview. “All of our Galaxy A series smartphones were also developed by our Bengaluru R&D hub. As we delve deeper into AI, a lot of our engineering for our three global AI platforms is being done in India, including our work on developing on-device AI features.”