Which company is the world's largest producer of NAND flash memory and smartphones under the Galaxy brand?

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Samsung Electronics is the world’s largest producer of NAND flash memory and smartphones under the Galaxy brand.

Samsung Electronics is the flagship electronics company of South Korea’s Samsung Group. Its businesses include semiconductors, smartphones, televisions, appliances, displays, and related components. The Galaxy name is used across a broad family of mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets.

NAND flash memory is a nonvolatile form of storage used in solid-state drives, phones, memory cards, and many other devices. Samsung both designs products that use memory and manufactures memory chips, giving it a broad position across the electronics supply chain.

Samsung Electronics is distinct from Samsung Group, the wider conglomerate that includes numerous affiliated companies. It is also distinct from TSMC: Samsung manufactures chips for itself and outside customers, while TSMC is primarily known as a dedicated contract foundry.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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