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Jess Kinghorn

Samsung estimates record-breaking $13 billion profits and says memory apocalypse tainted prices are 'inevitable'

Samsung Electronics America Corporate office in Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA. - stock photo. Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA - August 23, 2022: Samsung Electronics America Corporate office in Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA. Samsung is a South Korean manufacturing conglomerate.

You know what they say: New year, more doom and gloom about the memory supply crisis. As it's January, we're also going to start hearing about how big tech fared financially during the final quarter of 2025—and obviously, many of these massive corporations are doing far better than anyone who just wants a reasonably priced upgrade for their gaming PC.

Case in point, Samsung Electronics is already estimating that its final quarter operating profits for 2025 is about "20 trillion Korean won." That's well over 13 billion USD or 10 billion GBP—and almost threefold what Samsung made during 2024's fourth quarter.

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