Samsung Aims to Raise Laptop Sales 80% This Year on New Models
This article is for subscribers only.
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of memory chips, said it aims to raise laptop computer sales by 80 percent this year as it rolls out new high-end models.
Samsung aims to sell 18 million laptop computers globally this year, compared with 10 million units last year, Kevin Lee, a vice president at the Suwon, South Korea-based company’s information-technology solutions business, said in an interview on the sidelines of a media briefing today. The target would give Samsung a 6 percent to 7 percent share in the worldwide laptop market, compared with about 5 percent last year, he said.