Samsung Electronics plan to sponsor major sporting events. One such sponsorship was for the 1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan. As a chaebol, Samsung Group wielded wealth that allowed the company to invest and develop new technology rather than build products at a level which would not have a detrimental impact on Samsung's finances. Samsung had a number of technological breakthroughs, particularly in the field of memory which are commonplace in most electrical products today. This includes the world's first 64MB DRAM in 1992, 256 MB DRAM in 1994, 1GB DRAM in 1996. In 2004, Samsung developed the world's first 8GB
Renault Samsung Motors Design Centre () was created within the facility to locally design various cars manufactured by the company. In early 2013 the design branch was renamed Renault Design Asia () and was put in charge of supervising Renault's Asian design operations. The RSM's head offices are located at Gasan-dong, Seoul, with additional administrative offices in Busan. Renault Samsung Motors has two logos: the corporate logo and the marque logo. The first is for corporate communications and is an adaptation of the Samsung Group's logo. The second is the "storm's eye" logo which is used as marque's badge and in advertising. The