Despite reporting weaker-than-expected earnings, Samsung shares surged after Nvidia's CEO expressed confidence in the company's ability to overcome technical hurdles with its high-end memory chips.
Samsung Electronics Co.’s shares rose after Nvidia Corp. founder Jensen Huang expressed confidence in the Korean company’s ability to resolve technical issues dogging its highest-end memory, offsetting disappointing quarterly results. The world’s biggest memory maker shouldered hefty research and development expenses and front-end capacity expansion costs in the December quarter in its effort to catch up to SK Hynix Inc. and Micron Technology Inc. in the lucrative AI market.
Samsung has struggled to get its latest products certified by Nvidia, allowing SK Hynix in particular to carve out a larger slice of the market for the high-bandwidth memory that AI accelerators depend on. Investors had braced for disappointing numbers from a company that shed a third of its market value in 2024, even while SK Hynix soared more than 20 percent. On Wednesday, Samsung’s stock gained as much as 3.1 percent after Huang said at the CES show in Las Vegas that Samsung has to engineer a new design but that it’s “working very fast.” Samsung’s mustering its forces in a costly effort to claw back market share in the AI chip arena at the same time that demand for its conventional semiconductor chips for PCs and mobile devices weakened. Its smartphones, TVs and other appliances are also facing growing competition, while the operating rate in its foundry business dropped, the company said in a statement. Korea’s largest company reported preliminary operating profit of 6.5 trillion won ($4.5 billion) for the December quarter, falling short of analysts’ average projection for 8.96 trillion won. Revenue came to 75 trillion won, just shy of estimates. Samsung will provide a full financial statement with net income and divisional breakdowns later this month. “Samsung is just going through one of its toughest moments in its history,” Counterpoint analyst Tom Kang told Bloomberg Television. Samsung missed the high-bandwidth memory boom and needs to show it’s supplying AI memory to new client
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