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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 […]
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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...
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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.
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SK Hynix reported a record operating profit of 60.54 trillion won (about $41.66 billion) in the second quarter, up 557% from the a year earlier. Its operating margin was 76%, up from 41% a year earlier. Analyst expectations for operating profit were even higher, and the miss fueled investors' concerns that SK Hynix's rival Samsung is pricing its products more aggressively, Jefferies wrote.
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South Korean stocks suffered one of their steepest plunges on Wednesday, with the blood-letting that has battered chip firms over the past month deepening as nervous investors unwound their bets on the AI boom.Tokyo dived around three percent as chip firm Kioxia plunged 13.9 percent, while Tokyo Electron was 11 percent off.
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