{"id":983731,"date":"2026-01-07T08:26:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983731"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:32:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:02:52","slug":"samsung-likely-to-flag-160-jump-in-q4-profit-as-ai-boom-stokes-chip-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/07\/samsung-likely-to-flag-160-jump-in-q4-profit-as-ai-boom-stokes-chip-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung likely to flag 160% jump in Q4 profit as AI boom stokes chip prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics is expected to flag a 160% jump in its fourth-quarter operating profit spurred by a severe chip shortage that has \u200dsharply driven up memory prices as customers scramble to meet booming demand for artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>Semiconductor prices have rocketed in recent months, as the industry&#8217;s shift to AI-related chips has \u2060curbed production for traditional memory, while demand has been surging for both conventional and advanced chips to train and run AI models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics is expected to flag a 160% jump in its fourth-quarter operating profit spurred by a severe chip shortage that has \u200dsharply driven up memory prices as customers scramble to meet booming demand for artificial intelligence. Semiconductor prices have rocketed in recent months, as the industry&#8217;s shift to AI-related chips has \u2060curbed production for traditional memory, while demand has been surging for both conventional and advanced chips to train and run AI models.<\/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-983731","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\/983731","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=983731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}