Samsung's historic surge and challenges to sustain it

Samsung Electronics has delivered a quarterly performance that will be remembered as a watershed in corporate history. It posted its highest-ever quarterly performance, with 133 trillion won ($98.5 billion) in revenue and 57.2 trillion won ($42.4 billion) in operating profit for the first quarter, up 755 percent from a year earlier. Posting an operating profit that exceeds its entire earnings from the previous year in just one quarter has not only shattered domestic records but also entered the ranks of the world’s top five most profitable firms on a quarterly basis. In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), this is more than a financial milestone — it is a statement of technological relevance. The scale of the achievement is striking, but its underlying drivers are even more significant. Samsung’s resurgence has been powered by its dominance in memory semiconductors, now the backbone of the AI revolution. As demand for high-performance computing accelerates, particularly in data centers and generative AI systems, memory has become indispensable infrastructure. Samsung’s adv

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