{"id":1019274,"date":"2026-07-07T08:27:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019274"},"modified":"2026-07-07T08:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:04:15","slug":"samsung-forecasts-19-fold-jump-in-quarterly-profit-as-ai-demand-fuels-chip-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/07\/samsung-forecasts-19-fold-jump-in-quarterly-profit-as-ai-demand-fuels-chip-crunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung forecasts 19-fold jump in quarterly profit as AI demand fuels chip crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: Samsung Electronics on Tuesday forecast a 19-fold jump in second-quarter operating profit from a year earlier, surpassing its combined earnings over the past three years as it rides an AI boom that has driven memory chip prices to record highs. <\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s largest memory chipmaker estimated April-June operating profit at 89.4 trillion won ($58.44 billion), beating an LSEG SmartEstimate of 87.3 \u200ctrillion won, according to \u2060a regulatory filing. \u2060It reported a profit of 4.7 trillion won a year earlier. <\/p>\n<p>Revenue would likely rise 129% to 171 trillion won from a year earlier, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: Samsung Electronics on Tuesday forecast a 19-fold jump in second-quarter operating profit from a year earlier, surpassing its combined earnings over the past three years as it rides an AI boom that has driven memory chip prices to record highs. The world&#8217;s largest memory chipmaker estimated April-June operating profit at 89.4 trillion won ($58.44 billion), beating an LSEG SmartEstimate of 87.3 \u200ctrillion won, according to \u2060a regulatory filing. \u2060It reported a profit of 4.7 trillion won a year earlier. Revenue would likely rise 129% to 171 trillion won from a year earlier, it said.<\/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-1019274","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\/1019274","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=1019274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019275,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019274\/revisions\/1019275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}