{"id":17852,"date":"2015-09-26T14:47:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T21:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/lets-go-inside-samsungs-new-silicon-valley-headquarters"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:36:17","slug":"lets-go-inside-samsungs-new-silicon-valley-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/lets-go-inside-samsungs-new-silicon-valley-headquarters","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s go inside Samsung\u2019s new Silicon Valley headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While Apple has gone for a flying saucer design<\/a>, Samsung\u2019s new Silicon Valley offices<\/a> look more like a giant Rubik\u2019s Cube. The $300 million campus opened yesterday, cementing the South Korean company\u2019s presence in the Valley. The 1.1 million-square-foot site in San Jose is intended to accommodate up to 2,000 employees, bringing together Samsung\u2019s American R&D teams as well as providing a home for its local sales and marketing staff. Samsung says the site\u2019s open design is intended to foster collaboration between employees, enabling those \u201cimpromptu, spur-of-the-moment interactions that are the genesis of many great ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company broke ground on the 10-story campus back in 2013<\/a>, with architecture firm NBBJ designing the site, which includes courtyards, open \u201cgarden floors,\u201d and lab space. \u201cToday represents a major milestone as we open our most strategically important Samsung facility in the US and also our biggest investment in Silicon Valley,\u201d said Jaesoo Han, Samsung\u2019s devices president in America, in a press statement<\/a>. \u201cSamsung\u2019s goal is nothing less than to develop the best next\u2010generation technologies for device solutions.\u201d Here\u2019s how the new offices compare to the original renders:<\/p>\n

Samsung is stressing that the site is a home for its R&D work, including research into products like displays, semiconductors, and SSD hard drives<\/a>. However, the building also puts it on more of an equal footing with tech giants like Apple and Facebook, which have already established (or have plans for) monumental homes in Silicon Valley. Samsung may be facing hard times<\/a> in the smartphone industry, the product category it\u2019s most well known for in the US, but these new offices should give it a little more visibility in the tech world.<\/p>\n

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While Apple has gone for a flying saucer design, Samsung\u2019s new Silicon Valley offices look more like a giant Rubik\u2019s Cube. The $300 million campus opened yesterday, cementing the South Korean company\u2019s presence in the Valley. The 1.1 million-square-foot site in San Jose is intended to accommodate up to 2,000 employees, bringing together Samsung\u2019s American [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64077,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852\/revisions\/64077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}