Samsung Electronics reported on Thursday (July 31, 2025) a 55% drop in second-quarter working profit as delays in high-bandwidth reminiscence chip shipments and U.S. export curbs on superior chip gross sales to China continued to pull on its key semiconductor division.
The world’s largest reminiscence chip maker posted 4.7 trillion gained ($3.37 billion) in working profit for the April-June interval.
The consequence was roughly in step with its earlier estimate of 4.6 trillion gained, which had disillusioned buyers.
Its income rose 0.7% to 74.6 trillion gained, in step with its earlier estimate of 74 trillion gained.
Prolonged weak point in its monetary efficiency has deepened investor issues over the South Korean tech big’s capacity to meet up with smaller rivals in creating high-bandwidth reminiscence chips offered to clients together with Nvidia and utilized in synthetic intelligence knowledge centres.
Samsung reported earnings simply days after Tesla stated it had signed a $16.5 billion deal to supply chips from the tech big, a transfer that would bolster the South Korean firm’s struggling foundry enterprise that makes chips on contract.
