Samsung Electronics was tallied to have taken the global No. 1 spot in the memory chip business in the first quarter of this year with $50.4 billion (about 75.5 trillion won).
According to market research firm Counterpoint Research on the 7th, Samsung Electronics set sales records this year in both DRAM and NAND flash (NAND). DRAM posted $37.0 billion (about 55.4 trillion won), and NAND recorded $13.4 billion (about 20.1 trillion won) in sales.
Counterpoint said, "With memory demand surging across the board, profits are being generated in commodity DRAM at high prices, and this is expected to continue until 2027, when increased supply becomes visible," adding, "Samsung's results will be higher in the second quarter, and its full-year results in 2026 are also expected to be record-breaking."
Samsung Electronics posted a preliminary revenue of 133 trillion won and a preliminary operating profit of 57.2 trillion won in the first quarter of this year, marking its best-ever results. Samsung Electronics secured technological competitiveness in sixth-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) HBM4 and is maintaining high profitability as the No. 1 supplier in commodity DRAM.