Samsung Electronics' preliminary fourth-quarter operating profit missed estimates by a large margin, with the South Korean tech giant hit hard by extra costs as it works towards providing high-end chips to Nvidia .

In late 2024, it was reported that as a result of these record-breaking sales workers in Samsung’s memory business unit would receive a performance bonus equivalent to 200 percent of their base salary, the highest Target Achievement Incentive (TAI) figure ever posted by the company’s Device Solutions (DS) division.