{"id":920537,"date":"2025-04-09T07:48:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T02:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=920537"},"modified":"2025-04-09T08:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T02:53:03","slug":"samsung-profits-surge-as-buyers-stockpile-chips-ahead-of-trump-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/09\/samsung-profits-surge-as-buyers-stockpile-chips-ahead-of-trump-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung profits surge as buyers stockpile chips ahead of Trump tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics has posted stronger-than-expected quarterly profits as customers rushed to secure chips and smartphones ahead of impending US tariffs and export restrictions, according to a report by The Financial Times on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The South Korean tech giant projected an operating profit of 6.6 trillion South Korean won or KRW ($4.5 billion) for the first quarter of 2025, surpassing analysts\u2019 expectations of 5.2 trillion KRW, the report said. Sales are estimated to have increased by 10 per cent year-on-year. The company\u2019s stock rose 2.1 per cent in early trading, though it lagged behind local competitor SK Hynix, which saw its shares climb nearly 4 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics has posted stronger-than-expected quarterly profits as customers rushed to secure chips and smartphones ahead of impending US tariffs and export restrictions, according to a report by The Financial Times on Tuesday. The South Korean tech giant projected an operating profit of 6.6 trillion South Korean won or KRW ($4.5 billion) for the first quarter of 2025, surpassing analysts\u2019 expectations of 5.2 trillion KRW, the report said. Sales are estimated to have increased by 10 per cent year-on-year. The company\u2019s stock rose 2.1 per cent in early trading, though it lagged behind local competitor SK Hynix, which saw its [&hellip;]<\/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":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920537","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=920537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}