The Korea Times
Samsung Electronics on Tuesday provided its earnings guidance for the first quarter of this year, predicting 57.2 trillion won ($37.9 billion) in operating profit and 133 trillion won in sales, achieving record-breaking profitability amid a global surge in demand for artificial intelligence (AI) chips. The operating profit soared 755 percent from a year earlier, while the sales also jumped 68 percent during the same period. Quarterly sales and operating profit exceeded 100 trillion won and 50 trillion won, respectively, for the first time in the company’s history. The quarterly operating profit also surpassed Samsung Electronics’ 2025 full-year operating profit of 43.6 trillion won in just three months. The numbers far outpaced brokerages’ earnings consensus of 117 trillion won in sales and 38.1 trillion won in operating profit, prompting analysts to describe the guidance as “a super surprise.” The earnings beat concerns over a potential downturn in the memory market, fueled by Google’s TurboQuant, a technology that reduces AI memory usage, as well as a potential peak in memo
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