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The South Korean tech giant's memory chip division hit all-time highs on AI server demand, while elevated component costs pushed its mobile unit into the red
Samsung ticked all the boxes in its earnings—a 1,814% surge in operating profit, record revenue and remarks suggesting the memory shortage will last through 2028.
<body><p>STORY: 2028... That's when Samsung says the chip shortage will extend until.</p><p>The world's biggest memory chipmaker posted a 250-fold jump in chip profit for the second quarter...</p><p>hitting $61.7 billion.</p><p>The South Korean firm signed multi-year supply deals with the five biggest global data center operators, and says it's nearing five more.</p><p>Samsung said almost all customers are now requesting multi-year contracts.</p><p>But the chip boom hurt another part of the business — Samsung's mobile division posted its first-ever loss of $484 million.</p><p>Samsung shares still fell 0.7% on the day, after climbing as much as 8.4% earlier.</p><p>Rival SK Hynix dropped 5.6%.</p><p>It follows a recent sell-off in chip stocks due to investor concerns about the mounting cost of AI infrastructure...</p><p>and competition from China that could squeeze earnings.</p><p>But Samsung's cash pile hit $116.3 billion, fueling expectations of big shareholder returns.</p></body>
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (USOTC:SSNHZ) reported stronger-than-expected second-quarter earnings on Thursday, as surging demand for artificial intelligence memory chips helped lift profit and revenue to record levels despite ongoing weakness in parts of its consumer electronics business.
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South Korea's stock market crash is now its worst ever. The KOSPI lost over 33% in July, with support at 5,100 in focus.
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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...
Investors have been burned by big drops in single-stock funds tied to Samsung and SK Hynix. Leveraged ETFs are popular in the U.S. too.
Forced selling and concerns about AI-chip expectations intensified Samsung's decline during a record-setting South Korean market rout.
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