/ 07.12.2012 04:33PM
Samsung President, Stephen Woo to Deliver Keynote at CES
Scheduled to speak 9 a.m. Jan. 9
ARLINGTON,
VA.: The Consumer Electronics Association announced that Dr. Stephen
Woo, president of Samsung Electronics’ Device Solutions, will deliver a keynote
address at 2013 CES. The trade show will be held January
8-11, 2013, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Dr. Woo’s keynote address is scheduled to open day two of the show at 9 a.m. on
Wednesday, Jan. 9, in The Venetian’s Palazzo Ballroom. Dr. Woo will present his
insight on the role of components in enabling consumer product innovations.
“As it continues to innovate across a range of product categories, Samsung has
solidified its position as one of the top technology companies in the world,”
said Gary Shapiro, CEA president and CEO. “Samsung captures global attention
when it launches its dynamic products at the International CES. We all look
forward to hearing Dr. Woo share Samsung’s vision from across Samsung Device
Solutions, the world leader in advanced semiconductor and display solutions for
the IT industry.”
At Samsung Electronics since 2003, Dr. Woo was appointed general manager of the
System LSI Business in 2008. Dr. Woo currently oversees all activities
surrounding the System LSI Business, including logic solutions that provide
next-generation features in consumer and mobile products. Under his leadership,
revenue has nearly tripled to more than $10 billion in 2011, making it one of
the fastest-growing businesses in Samsung Electronics. Samsung’s System LSI
Business has maintained its lead in global market share for several major
products, including mobile application processors for smartphones,
complementary metal oxide silicon-based camera image sensors, flat-panel
display driver integrated circuits and smart card ICs for subscriber identity
module cards.
Dr. Woo’s background in the electronics industry dates back to 1977. He spent
more than 20 years in senior research and management positions at leading
companies in the semiconductor industry, including Bell Laboratories, Sansearch
(a start-up company he founded) and Texas Instruments. He worked as a research
scientist focusing on areas of very large scale integration design, field
programmable gate array, computer architecture and parallel processing at Bell
Laboratories. Dr. Woo also served as the business director and general manager
of the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System terminal chipset business at
Texas Instruments.