{"id":1006227,"date":"2026-05-01T09:11:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006227"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:53:38","slug":"samsungs-chip-profit-posts-almost-50-fold-growth-but-supply-worries-cloud-2027-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/01\/samsungs-chip-profit-posts-almost-50-fold-growth-but-supply-worries-cloud-2027-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s chip profit posts almost 50-fold growth but supply worries cloud 2027 outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul: Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported record quarterly profit driven by a 49-fold jump in chip income, saying it expects a severe supply shortage to deepen next year as clients spend on AI, driving up prices of its memory chips. <\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s top memory chipmaker by sales also said it has signed multi-year binding contracts with customers hoping to lock in supplies, without disclosing identities or terms. <\/p>\n<p>A boom in \u200cthe construction of AI \u2060data centres \u2060has spurred Samsung and chipmaking peers to allocate production capacity to advanced chips that Nvidia uses in its so-called AI accelerators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul: Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported record quarterly profit driven by a 49-fold jump in chip income, saying it expects a severe supply shortage to deepen next year as clients spend on AI, driving up prices of its memory chips. The world&#8217;s top memory chipmaker by sales also said it has signed multi-year binding contracts with customers hoping to lock in supplies, without disclosing identities or terms. A boom in \u200cthe construction of AI \u2060data centres \u2060has spurred Samsung and chipmaking peers to allocate production capacity to advanced chips that Nvidia uses in its so-called AI accelerators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006244,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006227\/revisions\/1006244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}