Now brothers we know why we are so fucked up
Summary
Samsung's chip division is on track to exceed its entire 40-year profit history in a single year, driven by surging memory and storage prices, surpassing Nvidia as the world's most profitable company with a 19x quarterly profit increase.
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@Compute_King: The Revelation of Samsung Becoming the World's Most Profitable Company! Samsung Electronics' Q2 results are indeed staggering. According to preliminary earnings, Samsung expects an operating profit of 89.4 trillion won (about $58.4 billion) for the second quarter of 2026, a year-on-year surge of about 19 times; revenue is expected to reach 171 trillion won, also significantly above market expectations. Even more interesting is...
Samsung Electronics' Q2 operating profit surged 19 times year-on-year, surpassing Nvidia to become one of the world's most profitable companies, marking the second phase of AI infrastructure—where computing power is not just about GPUs but the entire supply chain (including HBM, DRAM, NAND, etc.). The article points out that AI companies need to understand models, engineering, and supply chain simultaneously to survive.
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