Samsung in the fifth consecutive quarter declares record of net profit - in the last quarter, the figure reached 7.04 trillion. ($ 6.6 billion). A year earlier, the net profit was equal to 4.01 trillion.
Samsung's revenue in the fourth quarter of last year reached 56 trillion. ($ 52.6 billion). This is 19% more than the year before. Samsung Mobile devices division has provided 31,320,000,000,000. out of revenue - more than half of all Korean giant earning. Size of the operating profit was 8.84 trillion. ($ 8.27 billion). This is almost two times more than a year before.
The most popular smartphones Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note II, which have sold over 30 million and 5 million, respectively. Demand in the tablet segment, explains Samsung, moved to the middle and elementary price niches. This year, Samsung also will release a budget tablet. In the first quarter, the company expects to reduce demand for tablets and smartphones due to seasonal factors.
The drop in demand for PC memory was offset by an increase in demand for memory for servers and mobile devices. Volume of solid state memory 20-nm class also grew .