With Samsung Electronics expected to suffer its biggest annual profi...
) expected to suffer its biggest annual profit drop in at least a decade, investors are counting on an expected uptick in the memory-chip market to cure the tech giant’s ills this year.
The three months ended December are expected to mark the South Korean firm’s fifth year-on-year decline in quarterly profit, ending a year marred by bloated stockpiles of chips that squeezed prices, and the U.S.-China trade war that roiled global supply chains and prospects for consumer demand. “We expect overall market recovery in the first quarter of 2020,” said Michael Yang, a director at IHS Markit. “Both solid demand forecast from the server/hyperscale customers and optimism around 5G smartphone adoption are the drivers for growth.”
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