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Operating profit at Samsung’s semiconductor division rose to more than 220 times its year-earlier level. However, the company warned that memory chip shortages could worsen next year as AI infrastructure expands rapidly.View on euronews
That would be slower than the 70.7% surge in June, which was the biggest jump since 1978, but still the second-strongest annual growth rate in the current streak that started in June 2025. The export gains continue to be driven by chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, as memory chip prices climb amid a global surge in AI investment, analysts said. In the first 20 days of July, exports rose 52.3% from a year earlier, as semiconductor shipments jumped 180.6%.
South Korean stocks enjoyed a much-needed rally Thursday after a two-day rout as chip giant Samsung reported an eye-watering profit surge thanks to AI-driven demand, though the rest of Asia was mixed and oil held steep gains on fresh Middle East worries. Optimism got a boost Thursday as Samsung posted a 1,813 percent jump in second-quarter operating profit, buoyed by sustained AI-driven demand for memory chips.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.‘s (OTC:SSNLF) shares rose on Thursday after the chipmaker posted a record second-quarter operating profit as surging artificial intelligence memory demand boosted its semiconductor business, though higher component costs weighed on earnings in its mobile division. Operating Profit Beat Estimates Operating profit climbed to a record 89.5 trillion KRW ($61.93 billion) for the second-quarter, beating the 88.13 trillion KRW ($60.98 billion) analysts’ forecast compiled by
Samsung Electronics Co.'s semiconductor arm reported a more than 250-fold jump in profit, with an operating income of 89.2 trillion won in the June quarter. Bloomberg's Anthony Stephens reports on the latest data.
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Samsung's Q2 operating profit jumped 1,800% year over year as AI-driven memory chip demand pushed revenue to a record high.
South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics posted on Thursday a massive 19-fold jump in second-quarter operating profit from last year, buoyed by sustained AI-driven demand for memory chips.The boom results were posted despite South Korean stocks suffering a sharp sell-off on Wednesday as nervous traders unwound AI-driven bets, fretting whether lofty profit forecasts are realistic.
South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported a record operating profit of 89.5 trillion won ($62 billion) for the April-June period, a day after crosstown rival SK Hynix also reported record earnings, as the world’s two largest memory chipmakers continue to ride the global artificial intelligence boom. Despite their soaring profits, the companies’ shares have fallen sharply this week in South Korea’s volatile stock market, where retail investors often drive sharp swings in share prices, as concerns grow over their plans to spend massively on increasing manufacturing capacity and the prospects of intensifying competition from China. Samsung’s second-quarter operating profit was a more than 19-fold increase from a year earlier, and nearly all of it came from its semiconductor business, which benefited from rising chip prices driven by demand for AI servers and increased shipments of advanced high-bandwidth memory chips used to power AI applications.
Samsung Electronics’ net profit surged 14-fold in the second quarter, as a stellar performance by its core semiconductor division, helped the technology titan extend its streak of record earnings.
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Samsung Electronics said on Thursday its operating profit jumped 19-fold to a record in the second quarter, as solid demand for AI chips offset weaker earnings at its mobile business. "In H2 2026, the Memory Business expects robust demand centered on servers stemming from continued AI infrastructure capex and broader adoption of agentic AI," Samsung said in a statement. The world's top memory chipmaker reported operating profit of 89.5 trillion won ($61.98 billion) for the April-to-June period, in line with its estimate of 89.4 trillion won and up from 4.68 trillion won a year earlier.
The U.S. International Trade Commission has opened an investigation into Samsung Electronics over alleged patent infringement involving certain memory products. The case could lead to a ban on imports of affected Samsung memory products into the U.S. if the ITC finds a violation. The investigation also involves several major Samsung customers that rely on its memory chips in their own devices. For investors watching Samsung Electronics, KOSE:A005930, this ITC investigation comes at a time...
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The AI buildout has resulted in an unanticipated casualty distant from Silicon Valley: telecom equipment manufacturers, who now compete with hyperscalers for the same memory chips. Three major companies, SK Hynix, Samsung, and Micron, control more than 95% of worldwide DRAM production, and as AI data centers use an increasing share of that output, memory […]
SanDisk stock has crashed 47% in a month as an SK Hynix miss and a bearish chart pattern threaten to push SNDK below key support.
What started as a dip has morphed into a slump as ETFs and hedge funds dump assets to pay down debt.
What started as a dip has morphed into a slump as ETFs and hedge funds dump assets to pay down debt.
During an interview with CNBC, Futurum analyst Rolf Bulk cited the performance edge that SK Hynix, Micron, and Samsung have over CXMT chips.
If stock prices are your go-to economic barometer then you could be forgiven for ignoring the original “China Shock” a quarter-century ago. Manufacturing job losses in machinery, textiles, electronics and furniture slammed parts of the U.S. after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. There’s even a strong case that China’s industrial rise was a major tailwind for stocks overall.
A number of semiconductor stocks continued to pull back amid a broad global sell-off, fueled by concerns over increased competition from China and growing doubts about the sustainability of AI-related demand.
Samsung Electronics stock has delivered a strong 204.8% gain over the past three years, yet the broader valuation checks still indicate the shares screen as undervalued. That combination of robust returns and a high value score puts the current price in focus for investors trying to judge what they are paying for future cash flows. The 204.8% return over three years highlights how strongly Samsung Electronics has rewarded long term shareholders, which naturally raises the bar for what now...
By Gregor Stuart Hunter SINGAPORE, July 29 (Reuters) - Single-stock leveraged ETFs, launched in the United States in 2022, have boomed in Asia as a way to juice bets on South Korean chipmakers Samsung