Samsung Electronics will invest approximately $ 175 million over the next three years to underpin the South Korean giant’s leadership in industrial restructuring after the Covid-19 pandemic, which will translate into the creation of 40,000 jobs in a global way. direct.
Likewise, the company announced that, in addition to expanding the investment to ensure its leadership in strategic businesses, it plans to strengthen its position at a technological and market level through mergers and acquisitions.
In this way, Samsung will boost its presence in areas such as semiconductors, biopharmaceuticals, artificial intelligence or robotics in response to the acceleration of the “fourth industrial revolution”.
In this sense, the South Korean pointed out that semiconductors have emerged as a key industry capable of conditioning the competitiveness of all sectors and in which competition between countries for hegemony is intensifying.
“Semiconductors are the ‘security board’ of the Korean economy and the main industry of the fourth industrial revolution. Samsung’s aggressive investment is effectively a ‘survival strategy’ in the sense that once competitiveness is lost, it is almost impossible to recover”, the company said.
K. Tovar
Source: Notiamérica
