Samsung’s profit falls again on uneven chip demand


Samsung is working to catch up to rival SK Hynix Inc in high-bandwidth memory chips. — Bloomberg

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co posted its fourth straight quarter of profit decline in the holiday quarter after a long-awaited recovery in chip and electronics demand delivered few returns for the world’s biggest memory maker.

South Korea’s most valuable company said net income fell 74% in the last three months of the year to 6.02 trillion won after its mainstay chip operations posted a loss of 2.18 trillion won, bigger than what analysts projected.

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