Samsung Electronics on Thursday estimated its operating profit for the fourth quarter of 2025 at 20 trillion won ($13.8 billion), up about 200 percent from a year earlier, driven by skyrocketing memory chip prices amid surging global demand for artificial intelligence (AI) chips. According to the company’s earnings guidance, Samsung is expected to post 93 trillion won in sales and an operating profit of 13.8 trillion won. This marks sales growing 22.71 percent and operating profit surging 208.2 percent from a year earlier. The figures outpace the brokerages' consensus estimates of 90.6 trillion won in sales and a 17.8 trillion won operating profit. If finalized, the fourth quarter numbers would be new quarterly earnings record for Samsung Electronics. It would the first time that the company's quarterly operating profit to surpass 20 trillion won. The revenue surpassed the previous quarterly record of 86 trillion won set three months earlier, while operating profit reached its highest level since the third quarter of 2018. Some analysts expect the company's opearting profit of 2025 wil