US Edition(LEAD) Samsung Electronics Posts Record Operating Profit in Q4 Amid AI Boom
Samsung's Q4 operating profit rose 153% year-on-year to 20.1 trillion won, driven by strong sales of AI-focused high-bandwidth memory and DRAM chips.
- Samsung Electronics Co. reported earlier this month a record fourth‑quarter revenue of 93.8 trillion won and an operating profit of 20.07 trillion won for the quarter to December 2025, Yonhap said.
- Amid the AI boom, sales for the semiconductor division rose 33 percent quarter-on-quarter, while the device solutions division posted a record 16.4 trillion won profit on strong HBM and DRAM sales.
- Samsung said Thursday `AI and server demand to continue increasing, leading to more opportunities for structural growth`, and pledged a $33.2 billion investment in chip production facilities with HBM4 output starting in February, targeting American chip giant Nvidia as a customer.
- Market reaction was immediate as Samsung shares surged about 130 percent amid a tech rally, while SK hynix posted record profits, with Nvidia reportedly allocating 70% of its HBM4 demand to SK hynix.
- Over the year, Samsung's results beat expectations with annual revenue 333.6 trillion won and net profit 19.64 trillion won, while analysts' estimate was 18.6 trillion won; industry analysts warned that AI chip focus may raise consumer prices as SK hynix plans a $10 billion US investment.
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South Korean technology giant Samsung posted a record quarterly operating profit in the last quarter of last year, tripling it from the same period in 2024. It attributed the good results to the boom in artificial intelligence and demand for high-performance computer chips.
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