Samsung Heads Into Q3 Earnings With 5 Open Questions About Its Chip Boom

Samsung Electronics will publish preliminary Q3 earnings guidance on Thursday. Analysts expect operating profit of 106.1 trillion won ($79.1 billion), which would mark a fourth straight record quarter. Demand for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is still outrunning memory supply. However, memory price gains slowed during the quarter, leaving investors questioning whether chip margins have topped