# Samsung Q2 2026 Operating Profit Jumps 19-Fold on AI Chip Demand

> Samsung reported a quarterly operating profit of 89.4 trillion won, about $58.4 billion, roughly 19 times what it earned in the same quarter a year ago. To put that in perspective, the company says this single quarter's profit exceeds its combined operating profit for 2023 through 2025, and tops what Nvidia or Apple booked in a single quarter. Revenue reached 171 trillion won, more than double the year-ago figure. The engine is high-bandwidth memory, the specialized chips that sit alongside AI accelerators and that Samsung manufactures at scale. Demand from data centers has outrun supply for a third straight record quarter, and scarcity has sent prices climbing. The number is a vivid reminder that the AI boom is not only an OpenAI-and-Anthropic story; a huge share of the money is flowing to the unglamorous suppliers of memory, packaging and power. When a memory maker out-earns the chip designers everyone talks about, it says something about where the real bottleneck, and the real pricing power, currently sits.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: iTechPost · Published Thursday, July 9, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Samsung reported a quarterly operating profit of 89.4 trillion won, about $58.4 billion, roughly 19 times what it earned in the same quarter a year ago. To put that in perspective, the company says this single quarter's profit exceeds its combined operating profit for 2023 through 2025, and tops what Nvidia or Apple booked in a single quarter. Revenue reached 171 trillion won, more than double the year-ago figure. The engine is high-bandwidth memory, the specialized chips that sit alongside AI accelerators and that Samsung manufactures at scale. Demand from data centers has outrun supply for a third straight record quarter, and scarcity has sent prices climbing. The number is a vivid reminder that the AI boom is not only an OpenAI-and-Anthropic story; a huge share of the money is flowing to the unglamorous suppliers of memory, packaging and power. When a memory maker out-earns the chip designers everyone talks about, it says something about where the real bottleneck, and the real pricing power, currently sits.

## Source

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