Samsung has confirmed analysts' forecasts that the wave of spending on artificial intelligence will continue this quarter and into the next year. Its shares jumped more than 5% on the Seoul stock market. It said it would next year focus on mass production of the next generation of high-bandwidth memory, or HBM4, designed to work in tandem with Nvidia's AI accelerators. Samsung, the largest company in South Korea, announced that its semiconductor division reported an 80% increase in profit in the third quarter of 2025, beating expectations and indicating that global demand for AI is helping to drive recovery at the company's key business.
