Samsung Electronics Q3 2025 Earnings: Record Revenue On Roaring Memory Chip Demand

Samsung has reported its earnings for the third quarter of 2025, reporting broadly upbeat results on the back of the ongoing chip boom.

Samsung Electronics Q3 2025 Earnings Highlight

Here are the main highlights of the South Korean giant's latest quarterly earnings:

1. Revenue of 86.1 trillion won ($60 billion), up 9 percent year-over-year and a new record
2. Semiconductor sales of 33.1 trillion won ($23 billion), up 13 percent year-over-year
3. Memory sales of 26.7 trillion won ($18.6 billion), up 20 percent year-over-year
4. Semiconductor division operating profit of 7 trillion won ($4.8 billion)
5. Mobile revenue of 33.5 trillion won ($23.3 billion), up 12 percent year-over-year
6. Mobile operating profit of 3.6 trillion won ($2.5 billion)
7. Gross Profit of 33.5 trillion won ($23.3 billion)
8. Gross profit margin of 38.9 percent
9. Operating profit of 12.2 trillion won ($8.5 billion)
10. Operating margin of 14.1 percent

Outlook:

1. Memory business focused on HBM3E, high-density eSSD,128GB+ DDR5, 24Gb GDDR7 in Q4 2025
2. Memory business to focus on HBM4, DDR5, LPDDR5x, high-density QLC SSD in 2026
3. Foundry focused on ramping up the 2nm process in Q4 2025
4. Foundry to concentrate on "mass production of GAA 2nd Gen. 2nm process, the performance- and power- optimized 4nm, and HBM4 base-die" in 2026, as well as initializing operations at the Taylor fab in the US.
5. Samsung Display Corp. focused on QD-OLED products.

Commentary:

Samsung Electronics has delivered an all-round pristine result for its third quarter of 2025, posting healthy growth in all segments, barring its Visual Display and Digital Appliances division, where Digital Appliances induced a modest year-over-year weakness of around 1 percent.

Unsurprisingly, given the emerging dynamics in the memory business, the division recorded the most aggressive growth for the quarter, clocking in a year-over-year increase in revenue of around 20 percent.

We noted recently that the soaring demand for HBM within datacenter servers was tightening available wafer capacity for memory chips.

According to TrendForce, DDR5 contract prices are expected to maintain an "upward trajectory throughout 2026," especially in H1. By Q1 2026, DDR5 profitability will surpass that of HBM3e.

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