Samsung Electronic’s memory chip business is killing it, hitting $49.64 billion for the quarter and driving over 99 percent of its operating profit. But the price gouging created by the AI hype caused its smartphone and home-appliance businesses to post modest operating losses due to the higher cost of chips and other components. [Link: Samsung Sees Chip Crunch Through 2028 as Profit Soars to Record | https://www.wsj.com/tech/samsungs-chip-earnings-push-net-profit-to-record-cf8711bc | WSJ]

SEOUL: South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics posted on Thursday (Jul 30) a massive 19-fold jump in second-quarter operating profit from a year earlier, buoyed by…

Results at world's biggest memory chip maker come as AI boom concerns rise

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