Samsung Electronics posted record quarterly profit, driven by an eightfold jump in earnings as clients invest heavily in AI infrastructure, boosting memory chip prices. The company expects strong server memory demand due to hyperscalers adopting AI and large language models. Samsung also anticipates growth in agentic AI demand in the second half of 2024. U.S. tech giants like Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft signaled continued AI spending. Samsung's chip division profit reached a record 53.7 trillion won ($36.15 billion), accounting for 94% of its total quarterly profit. The company aims to close the gap with SK Hynix in supplying high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips to Nvidia.
FILE PHOTO: A Samsung Electronics logo and a computer motherboard appear in this illustration taken August 25, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo SEOUL, April 30 - Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported record quarterly profit after an eightfold jump in earnings, saying it expects the momentum to continue as clients spend aggressively on AI infrastructure and drive up prices of its memory chips .
A boom in the construction of AI data centres has spurred chipmakers to allocate more production capacity to advanced chips that Nvidia uses in its so-called AI accelerators, squeezing the supply of more conventional chips. Samsung said it"expects server memory demand to remain strong as hyperscalers accommodate enterprises' increasing adoption of AI" and large language model services. It also expects agentic AI - AI that operates autonomously -"to accelerate growth in demand" in the second half of this year.
U.S. technology majors including Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft on Wednesday signalled sustained AI spending. Samsung, the world's top memory chipmaker by sales, said January-March operating profit in its cash cow chip division reached a record 53.7 trillion won from 1.1 trillion won in the same period a year earlier. That accounted for 94% of the 57.2 trillion won quarterly total. That record total matched Samsung's 57.2 trillion won estimate and compared to 6.69 trillion won a year earlier.
Samsung has been trying to narrow the gap with compatriot SK Hynix in supplying high bandwidth memory chips to Nvidia, having fallen behind to the detriment of both profit and share price. SK Hynix last week reported a quarterly profit record with a fivefold jump in earnings and forecast a prolonged chip industry boom, downplaying any concern about profit margins for chips nearing their peak.
On Thursday, Samsung said it has started the industry's first mass-production sales of HBM4 chips for Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform. Shares of Samsung rose 1.3% after the earnings announcement. The stock has surged 88% this year, outstripping the broader market's 59% gain. Samsung also said profit in its mobile and network division declined 35% in the first quarter to 2.8 trillion won, squeezed by surging prices of conventional chips.
The firm is bracing for potential production disruption as unions representing the majority of its workers in South Korea, especially in its chip division, consider striking over pay.
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