Recently, Samsung announced its preliminary operating data for 2023, which shows that its revenue in 2023 will be about 25816 trillion won, down about 15%. The operating profit is about 654 trillion won (about 35.6 billion yuan), down 85% year-on-year, the worst record since 2008.
Why Samsung is so miserable, of course, is because of the semiconductor recession in 2023, especially the memory chips, Samsung continues to reduce prices and production, which ultimately leads to so little profit.
However, although Samsung's profits fell by 85%, in fact, behind this number, everyone still has to admire Samsung, because in 2023, Samsung's memory chip business will actually lose nearly 100 billion yuan, but after the whole year, there will still be a profit of 654 trillion won, do you say Samsung is amazing?
Data shows that the loss of Samsung's semiconductor division in the first quarter may be as high as 3 billion US dollars (about 21 billion yuan), and in the second quarter, the operating profit of Samsung's semiconductor division is still as high as 4A loss of 36 trillion won (about 24 billion won).
In the third quarter, it lost money again, and in the first three quarters, Samsung's chip business accumulated operating losses of 127 trillion won (about 69 billion yuan), Samsung's semiconductor business lost money again in the fourth quarter, which is expected to be in 1About 2 trillion won (about 6.5 billion yuan).
Calculated down, that is to say, Samsung's memory chips, in the whole year of 2023, will actually lose about 75.5 billion, close to 80 billion yuan, but the memory chips have lost so much, and the final total profit is still 35.6 billion yuan.
What does this mean, it shows that Samsung's other businesses have made money, earning more than 100 billion yuan, so after filling the hole of nearly 80 billion yuan in memory chips, it can still achieve a profit of 35.6 billion yuan.
So what are Samsung's businesses that make money?The first is the mobile phone business, at present, Samsung is the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, sales are higher than Apple, although the high-end market share is not as good as Apple, the profit is not as good as Apple, but it is still very profitable.
Then Samsung's OLED screen is the world's first, mobile phone OLED screen, Samsung alone accounts for 50%+ share, far from BOE, LG, etc. can be compared, of course, it also makes money.
At the same time, Samsung TV is also the first in the world,Especially OLEDTV、MiniLED TVs, etc.,Samsung is the first in the world,These TVs are very high-end,The profit is also very high。
In addition, Samsung also has a chip foundry business, after all, Samsung is currently the only two manufacturers in the world that have mastered the 3nm chip process, and Samsung also has a home appliance business, such as refrigerators, washing machines, etc., as well as computers, monitors, etc., which can continue to create profits for Samsung.