Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. ARTIK — 3 prefixes (MA-L)

A MAC address starting with 00:72:04, 44:8F:17, or 08:15:2F belongs to "Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. ARTIK," a registrant distinct from Samsung's main consumer-electronics OUI block. The identification typically points to hardware from ARTIK, Samsung's now-discontinued Internet-of-Things platform — not phones, TVs, or other mainstream Samsung consumer gear.

All three prefixes are standard 24-bit MA-L assignments registered to the same address (1-1, Samsungjeonja-ro, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR 18448), confirming they are a single coherent registrant rather than unrelated allocations. This registrant string is intentionally kept separate from the parent "Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd" vendor entry, which already excludes ARTIK as a distinct affiliate.

ARTIK was a real, multi-year Samsung product line: system-on-modules and developer boards (ARTIK 710, 530, 520, 305s, 053, 055s, 030, 020) with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, and on some SKUs Zigbee, aimed at connected-home and industrial IoT builders, paired with the since-shuttered ARTIK Cloud device-management service. Trade press covered its roughly 2014–2016 launch and "SAMSUNG ARTIK" is a registered US trademark.

Samsung announced ARTIK's discontinuation on 2018-12-03; modules stayed orderable until 2019-06-28 with final shipments by 2019-11-30, and ARTIK Cloud shut down 2019-05-15. Those are Samsung's own product-lifecycle dates from its PCN and trade coverage, not IEEE OUI registration dates — IEEE publishes no assignment date for any of these three prefixes.

Samsung's ARTIK security collateral described secure boot, signed OTA firmware, and X.509 device certificates, but a targeted search turned up no ARTIK-specific CVEs. With the line end-of-life since 2019, any surviving field units receive no further Samsung firmware or security updates — the practical risk is unsupported hardware, not a known specific flaw.

IEEE assignment

3 prefixes → Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. ARTIK, registered Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry keys 007204, 448F17, 08152F

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit); 3 IEEE prefixes (~50.3M addresses combined) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

HQ / country

1-1, Samsungjeonja-ro, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR 18448 (registry address) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Company status

ARTIK product line discontinued 2018–2019; parent company Samsung Electronics remains active [Confirmed] — cnx-software.com, mouser.com PCN

Device types

IoT system-on-modules / developer boards (ARTIK 710, 530, 520, 305s, 053, 055s, 030, 020) [Likely] — cnx-software.com

Notable products

ARTIK Cloud device-management service (shut down 2019-05-15), ARTIK developer boards [Confirmed] — community.smartthings.com, mouser.com PCN

Verified sample prefixes (all MA-L, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. ARTIK)

00:72:04, 44:8F:17, 08:15:2F [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry keys 007204, 448F17, 08152F

No IEEE date note

IEEE's public OUI data carries no assignment/registration date for any of the three prefixes; Samsung's product-discontinuation PCN dates and the 2015/2017 USPTO trademark filing/registration dates are unrelated lifecycle facts and must not be presented as an OUI registration date.

[Confirmed] — trademark.justia.com, mouser.com PCN

Special note

This registrant ("Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. ARTIK") is distinct from the parent "Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd" vendor entry — do not fold these prefixes into that page or attribute them to general Samsung consumer electronics. [Confirmed] — /mac/vendor/samsung-electronics/

Related vendors

Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd (parent company; separate OUI registrant/vendor entry) [Confirmed] — /mac/vendor/samsung-electronics/

Analyst note

These three prefixes identify Samsung's discontinued ARTIK IoT hardware line specifically, not Samsung's mainstream consumer electronics. The product line's 2018–2019 end-of-life means any device presenting one of these prefixes today is unsupported hardware, not a currently-shipping Samsung product.