🔥 The AI wave is surging! Samsung’s Q3 operating profit skyrockets 782%, surpasses 100 trillion won to set an all-time record
Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest memory chipmaker, today released its preliminary results for the third quarter of 2026. Driven by strong demand for AI-related chips, several key financial metrics hit new all-time highs:

📊 Key highlights:

• Operating profit: 107.4 trillion won (approximately $80.17 billion), up 782% year over year and beating analysts’ expectations of 106.1 trillion won. This marks the first time Samsung’s quarterly operating profit has exceeded 100 trillion won, and its fourth consecutive quarter of record-high profits.

• Revenue: 195 trillion won, up 127% year over year (compared with 86.06 trillion won in the same period last year).
• Main growth drivers: A sharp surge in prices for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and conventional DRAM/NAND. Analysts estimate Samsung’s HBM shipments jumped nearly 50% quarter over quarter in Q3.

⚠️ Industry signals and supply-demand dynamics:

• The memory supply-demand gap is expected to persist through 2027–2028: Demand from AI infrastructure is surging, while memory chip capacity remains severely constrained.

• Micron’s results are also soaring: Micron’s latest quarterly net profit surged more than tenfold year over year to $37.7 billion. The company said customers have already booked more than 75% of its 2027 capacity, with negotiations extending into 2028.

• Pressure on downstream supply chains: Rising memory prices are benefiting semiconductor divisions, but they are also driving up component costs for downstream products such as smartphones and consumer electronics, squeezing profit margins in related divisions.

💡 As AI infrastructure construction intensifies, memory chips have become one of the most critical “hard currencies” in the computing value chain.
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