Samsung Electro-Mechanics is a multinational electronic component company headquartered in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It is a subsidiary of the Samsung Group. The company produces chip parts such as MLCCs, semiconductor substrates, camera modules, network modules and printed circuit boards. Established in 1973 as Samsung Sanyo Parts, the name was changed to Samsung Electric Parts the following year. The name was again changed to Samsung Electronics Parts in 1977, and then to Samsung Electro-Mechanics in 1987. The company is headquartered in Suwon, South Korea, with additional manufacturing facilities in Sejong and Busan and overseas in Philippines and Thailand. It also once had such facility in Tianjin, China. This company works on semiconductor components. "SEMCO has pulled engineers from Murata Manufacturing and TDK," industry insiders all say. They presented good conditions that could be estimated at tens of millions of yen in two years, and acquired the technology that Japanese major manufacturers had cultivated over decades in a short period of time. Wikipedia