Earlier this month, the company said the sale of its high-end HBM3E chips to a major customer had been delayed without elaborating on the issue.“The total sales of HBM chips in the third quarter jumped more than 70% from the previous quarter,” Kim Jae-joon, vice president of Samsung Electronics, said during an earnings conference call earlier today.“HBM3E sales accounted for the low and mid-10% range in the third quarter but they are expected to rise to about 50% in the fourth quarter.”The company said it has seen significant progress in its HBM chip quality test with a major customer, Nvidia, raising expectations for a rise in its HBM chip sales in the fourth quarter.
Its memory business posted 22.27 trillion won in sales in the quarter, more than doubled from a year ago thanks to a rise in sales of high-end chips for artificial intelligence devices and servers, such as HBMs, double data rate 5 (DDR5) and solid-state drive (SSD) for servers, the company said.
Samsung Electronics Co.reported a weaker-than-expected operating profit in its chip business in the third quarter but expects a rise in sales of its high-end AI chips, like high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, in the next quarter.
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