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2026-04-07 07:05:34
[AI Demand Drives Chip Price Hikes: Samsung's Q1 Profit Expected to Surge Eightfold] 1. Samsung Electronics on Tuesday projected its first-quarter operating profit would increase more than eightfold compared to the same period last year, exceeding market expectations. The booming development of artificial intelligence infrastructure has led to supply bottlenecks and driven up chip prices. 2. The world's largest memory chip maker expects its operating profit for the January-March period to be 57.2 trillion won (approximately US$37.92 billion), far exceeding the 6.69 trillion won in the same period last year and also higher than the institutional expectation of 40.6 trillion won.
