{"id":1041407,"date":"2026-10-07T08:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041407"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:59:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:29:50","slug":"samsungs-q3-profit-seen-jumping-nine-fold-but-chip-margins-may-be-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/07\/samsungs-q3-profit-seen-jumping-nine-fold-but-chip-margins-may-be-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s Q3 profit seen jumping nine-fold, but chip margins may be flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: Samsung Electronics is expected to report a nearly nine-fold jump in third-quarter operating profit, driven by robust AI demand, though analysts have cut forecasts by nearly 8% since the end of August. <\/p>\n<p>Despite moderating gains in the prices of memory chips and a strengthening South Korean won, the world&#8217;s largest memory-chip maker is expected to post operating profit of 106.1 trillion won ($79.1 billion) for the July-September quarter. <\/p>\n<p>The LSEG SmartEstimate, based on forecasts from 21 analysts, and weighted toward those with stronger track records has been slashed by 7.7% since the end of August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: Samsung Electronics is expected to report a nearly nine-fold jump in third-quarter operating profit, driven by robust AI demand, though analysts have cut forecasts by nearly 8% since the end of August. Despite moderating gains in the prices of memory chips and a strengthening South Korean won, the world&#8217;s largest memory-chip maker is expected to post operating profit of 106.1 trillion won ($79.1 billion) for the July-September quarter. The LSEG SmartEstimate, based on forecasts from 21 analysts, and weighted toward those with stronger track records has been slashed by 7.7% since the end of August.<\/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-1041407","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\/1041407","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=1041407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041437,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041407\/revisions\/1041437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}