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Samsung expects highest quarterly profit in over 3 years, lifted by AI chip demand
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on October 13, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on October 13, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Samsung Electronics forecasts a 32% rise in third-quarter profit, driven by strong demand for AI chips, marking its highest profit in over three years.
SEOUL (Reuters) -Samsung Electronics on Tuesday projected a 32% rise in third-quarter operating profit from a year earlier, well ahead of analysts' estimates, as demand for conventional memory chips helped offset weaker high bandwidth memory chip sales.
The world's largest memory chipmaker estimated an operating profit of 12.1 trillion won for the July-September period, versus a 10.1 trillion won LSEG SmartEstimate, marking its highest quarterly profit in more than three years.
Samsung’s third-quarter results reflected a gradual recovery in the memory market, as strong demand for server and AI-related chips boosted prices and shipments of conventional DRAM and NAND products.
Although progress in supplying advanced high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips to major clients such as Nvidia was slower than expected, gains in commodity memory, also supported by tight supplies, helped cushion the impact, analysts said.
Revenue would likely rise 8.7% to 86 trillion won from a year earlier, the filing showed.
Samsung is expected to release detailed results including a breakdown of earnings for each of its businesses later this month.
(Reporting by Heekyong Yang, Joyce Lee and Hyunjoo Jin; Editing by Chris Reese and Sonali Paul)
Operating profit is the profit a company makes from its normal business operations, excluding any income derived from non-operational activities like investments or sales of assets.
Memory chips are semiconductor devices used to store data temporarily or permanently in computers and other electronic devices, crucial for processing and storing information.
AI chip demand refers to the growing need for specialized chips designed to handle artificial intelligence tasks, which require significant processing power for tasks like machine learning and data analysis.
Revenue is the total income generated by a company from its business activities, such as sales of goods or services, before any expenses are deducted.
Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) is a type of memory used in computers and other devices that requires constant refreshing to maintain data, commonly used for main system memory.
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