Samsung’s Shares Climb After Nvidia Talk Offsets Profit Miss
Live Mint-- Samsung Electronics Co.’s shares rose after Nvidia Corp. founder Jensen Huang expressed confidence in the Korean company’s ability to resolve technical issues dogging its highest-end memory, offsetting disappointing quarterly results. Samsung has struggled to get its latest products certified by Nvidia, allowing SK Hynix in particular to carve out a larger slice of the market for the high-bandwidth memory that AI accelerators depend on. On Wednesday, Samsung’s stock gained as much as 3.1% after Huang said at the CES show in Las Vegas that Samsung has to engineer a new design but that it’s “working very fast.” Samsung’s mustering its forces in a costly effort to claw back market share in the AI chip arena at the same time that demand for its conventional semiconductor chips for PCs and mobile devices weakened. “While Samsung’s fourth quarter numbers are ugly, the firm likely won’t be a non-factor in high-bandwidth memory for long,” Vital Knowledge’s Adam Crisafulli said in a note to investors.