Samsung Reports Record $80 Billion Quarterly Profit as AI Infrastructure Boom Drives Memory Chip Surge

Samsung Electronics announced a record-breaking third-quarter operating profit of 107.4 trillion won ($80.2 billion), marking the first time the company surpassed the 100-trillion-won threshold. The result represents a nearly tenfold increase from 12.2 trillion won a year earlier, driven overwhelmingly by surging demand for memory chips powering artificial intelligence infrastructure.