Samsung is bringing back its split hierarchical structure to imbue its organizational heft with some much-needed agility to contend with a growing number of challenges, including a historic upheaval in the memory sphere.
Samsung's dual-CEO structure: Roh Tae-moon and Jun Young-hyun will be Samsung's co-CEOs
According to the Korean Herald, Samsung is reviving its dual-CEO organization structure, having already greenlighted the move as a part of its annual executive reshuffle, entailing:
- President Roh Tae-moon, who was the acting head of Samsung's smartphone-centric Device eXperience division for the past eight months and is popularly known as TM Roh, has now been appointed the division's official chief as well as the co-CEO of Samsung.
- Vice Chair Jun Young-hyun, who heads Samsung's memory chips-geared Device Solutions segment, will also now act as the co-CEO of the South Korean behemoth.
As a part of this management shakeup, Jun Young-hyun will relinquish control of the South Korean behemoth's Advanced Institute of Technology to Park Hong-kun, a Harvard University professor with expertise in the fields of nanoscience and quantum tech.
Park, who is slated to formally join Samsung from January 01, will also spearhead the company's R&D efforts in the sphere of neuromorphic semiconductors, which mimic the processes of the human brain by using parallel computing on a massive scale, while processing and storing information in the same location, which unlocks sizable efficiency gains.
These moves, especially the elevation of mobile and memory leadership, is intended to boost Samsung's agility in the face of historic headwinds. Samsung's mobile division is currently being squeezed by the relentless rise in LPDDR5 costs - which itself is a function of AI-driven demand for HBM, which is squeezing out the production capacities of other DRAM products such as the LPDDR5 - as well as the eye-watering cost of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC, which is expected to power the upcoming Galaxy S26 Ultra exclusively.
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