Samsung Electronics Hits All-Time Record Operating Profit of 57 Trillion Won in Q1

Samsung Electronics achieved a record-breaking operating profit of 57.2 trillion won in the first quarter of this year. This marks a historic accomplishment, surpassing the company's entire annual operating profit from the previous year in just three months.

This performance is attributed to the strong demand and robust growth in the semiconductor business. Driven by explosive growth, Samsung Electronics has entered the 'Big Tech Top 5' based on quarterly operating profit.

This achievement was recorded on the back of the memory semiconductor super-boom fueled by the construction boom for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, and the expanded sales of its 6th-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM4) product, for which mass production shipments began in February.

Although segment-specific results have not been disclosed, the securities industry estimates that the operating profit for the Device Solutions (DS) division, which handles the semiconductor business, significantly exceeded 50 trillion won in the first quarter.

Industry observers foresee the semiconductor super-boom continuing at least through the end of this year. Analysis suggests that the rapid shift from AI 'training' to 'inference' stages is accelerating AI infrastructure investment, leading to sustained strong demand for memory through the year-end.

Samsung Electronics possesses the world's largest memory production capacity and is the only company offering a 'one-stop solution' encompassing logic, memory, foundry, and packaging. Samsung Electronics was evaluated as having regained its technological competitiveness by commencing mass production and shipment of the world's first, highest-performance 6th-generation HBM4 in February.