SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co said on Friday its net profit topped US$10bil (RM38bil) last year, reaching a new landmark in its 35-year history of rising from a Third World television maker to the worlds No 1 maker of memory chips and flat panel screens.
Samsung exited last year on a weak note, with its fourth-quarter net profit falling 2% from a year earlier to 1.83tril won (RM6.7bil) due to squeezed margins for its mobile handsets and weaker prices for liquid crystal displays.