KRW 700 billion of Samsung DX’s roughly KRW 800 billion second-quarter loss came from MX, marking the smartphone business’s first loss on record.
Rising memory chip prices drove up manufacturing costs and overwhelmed Samsung’s push to protect profitability through higher-end Galaxy S26 sales and efficiency gains.
Samsung’s broader results were still buoyed by memory, with the company posting record overall profits even as devices dragged on earnings.
Within DX, Visual Display and Digital Appliances lost a combined KRW 10 billion, while Harman offset some weakness with KRW 400 billion in profit.