Samsung's chip division employees are getting massive bonuses thanks to the memory crisis. Workers in the Device Solutions semiconductor unit will reportedly receive a performance bonus worth forty-three to forty-eight percent of their annual salary early next year, a huge jump from last year's fourteen percent payout. This windfall is directly tied to soaring prices for general-purpose DRAM and the full-scale supply of Samsung's fifth-generation High-Bandwidth Memory, including its HBM3E and HBM4 products for clients like NVIDIA.
The company's strategic focus on profitable HBM and DDR5 production, coupled with a major deal to supply LPDDR5X RAM to Apple for its iPhone 17 and iPhone 18 lines, is fueling a revenue surge. This positions the division for an estimated operating profit of around seventy-three billion dollars in 2026. The bonus payout, while significant, is slightly less than the forty-five to fifty percent rate awarded to the Mobile Experience smartphone division. Other business units, like Visual Display and Digital Appliances, will see much smaller bonuses in the nine to twelve percent range, highlighting how the memory shortage is disproportionately benefiting Samsung's semiconductor operations.
The company's strategic focus on profitable HBM and DDR5 production, coupled with a major deal to supply LPDDR5X RAM to Apple for its iPhone 17 and iPhone 18 lines, is fueling a revenue surge. This positions the division for an estimated operating profit of around seventy-three billion dollars in 2026. The bonus payout, while significant, is slightly less than the forty-five to fifty percent rate awarded to the Mobile Experience smartphone division. Other business units, like Visual Display and Digital Appliances, will see much smaller bonuses in the nine to twelve percent range, highlighting how the memory shortage is disproportionately benefiting Samsung's semiconductor operations.
