Samsung second-quarter profit more than halves, missing expectations, weighed by slump in chip business
On Thursday, March 20, 2025, Samsung Signage during the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, USA of San Jose, California.
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Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported to the United States by the US export restrictions in advanced AI chips and missed the abducted expectations.
Samsung’s second quarter activity profit exceeded approximately 4.6 trillion Won forecasting, while last year, there was a steep decline in 10.44 trillion Won recorded in the same period last year.
The South Korean technology giant won 74.07 trillion a year ago and won 74.07 trillion by defeating the 74 trillion Won estimation.
Here are the second quarter results of Samsung, compared to Lseg Smartestate for the estimates of the analysts who are more consistently correct:
- Revenues: 74.6 trillion won ($ 53.5 billion) and 74.43 trillion won won
- Business profit: He won 4.7 trillion and 5.33 trillion won
In particular, the device solutions department covering the memory chip, semiconductor design and Foundry business units decreased by 93.8% of the activity profit from year to year.
Samsung Electronics’ Chip Business won 400 billion in the second quarter and won 6.45 trillion in the same period last year. Chip income won 28.56 trillion last year and fell to 27.9 trillion Won.
“The costs of one -time costs had a negative impact on profit,” said the company said in a statement, “Inventory value adjustments in memory and out -of -memory effects of China -related export restrictions.” He said.
Samsung’s Foundry business will receive support in the quarter after a 16.5 billion dollar contract to supply chipset to a large company announced on Monday.
Although Samsung has not yet called the other side, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that it is an American electric vehicle manufacturer and that the agreement could be greater than the announced.
In the meantime, in the second half of the year, Samsung said he plans to meet the increasing demand for high -valuable and AI -guided products and to continue to strengthen its competitiveness in advanced semiconductors.
Consumer Devices
Samsung’s mobile experience and network businesses, smartphones, tablets, wearable devices and other devices reported an increase in charge of developing and selling Sales and profit.
The unit recorded a 3.1 trillion WON operating profit in the second quarter compared to 2.23 trillion Won in the same period last year.
The consolidated income for the unit reached 29.2 trillion Won from 27.38 trillion Won last year.
Samsung, both revenue and business profit, strong sales of the Galaxy S25 series and Galaxy A series smartphones, as well as Galaxy tablets grow every year, he said.
“H2 2025 [mobile experience business] In order to increase the market share, Samsung emphasizes the AI functionality of the Galaxy A series, while the first flagship plans to continue its first approach for smartphone sales focusing on folds and Galaxy S25 series. “
