Eric Ross, chief investment strategist at Cascend Securities, discusses Samsung's chip business and how it's being "leapfrogged" by SK Hynix and Micron in the DRAM market.

Samsung Electronics Co.’s pivotal chip division reported a smaller-than-expected profit as the world’s largest memory chipmaker fights to narrow the lead arch-rival SK Hynix Inc. has in the artificial intelligence arena.

South Korea's SK Hynix forecast sales of its high-end semiconductors used in generative artificial intelligence chipsets would more than double this year, after reporting a quarterly profit record that beat a results estimate for rival Samsung.

Samsung Electronics (SSNLF) warned of slower demand for its AI chips in the first quarter of 2025 partly due to U.S. export restrictions.

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) has approved Samsung Electronics (KS:005930) 8-layer HBM3E chips for artificial intelligence applications, Bloomberg reported. The chips will be used in Nvidias AI products for China,

Asian equities fell Friday (Jan 31), as concerns over the impact DeepSeek will have on the artificial intelligence market pressured South Korean chipmakers. US futures climbed after robust results from Apple Inc.

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Samsung's Q4 revenue grew by 12% Y/Y to $52.2B, but operating profit declined by 30% Q/Q due to soft market conditions and higher R&D costs.

Chipmaking giant SK hynix has surpassed its biggest rival, Samsung Electronics, for the first time ever in terms of quarterly profit, data showed on Tuesday, as its robust sales of artificial intelligence (AI) memory chips pushed up its fourth-quarter figures to record highs.

Asian equities fell Friday, pressured by technology companies. US futures climbed after robust results from Apple Inc.

The company’s Q4 revenue increased by 12%, and its operating profit rose by 15%, making for its best quarter ever, SK Hynix said in a statement. The company also announced that its revenue for the year was 66.1930 trillion won (roughly $46.13 billion). SK Hynix raised its annual fixed dividend for shareholders by 25%.

Shares of SK hynix, a key memory chip supplier to Nvidia, dropped sharply on the Kospi stock exchange on Friday, declining over 9 per cent as the market reopened after the Lunar New Year holiday. The decline follows the debut of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s open-source AI model,