Despite being smashed by humiliations, Samsung just recorded a record quarter of business through a net income of $9.9 billion for Q2 2017.

The Korea firm has been shocked by the recall of the Galaxy Note 7 and the prosecution of de facto leader Jay Y. Lee on bribery charges, although that didn’t discontinue it from hauling in profits of $54.8 billion throughout the three-month era. That income figure increased by 20 percent year-on-year, except net profit leaped 89 percent gratitude primarily to brawny Galaxy S8 sales and Samsung’s mechanism businesses.

Despite the consequences, Samsung did vigilance that high constituent prices had gobbled into a little of the income from its mobile industry. Similarly, it prediction that its mobile proceeds may refuse due to marketing expenses related through the forthcoming start of its subsequently Note smartphone, and waning sales of the Galaxy S8 currently that it is out of its post-launch epoch.

Samsung too shed light on Harman, which is its mosts expensive acquisition at $8 billion. The business did $1.9 billion in sales through a working profit of $200 million though, when factoring in expenses from the attainment; net revenue was $5 million. The concord is likely to collision Harman’s fallouts for the subsequently few quarters, Samsung said.

※ Consolidated Sales and Operating Profit by Segment based on K-IFRS (2016~2017 2Q)

Samsung Electronics today proclaimed financial consequences for the second quarter broken June 30, 2017. Samsung’s proceeds for the quarter was KRW 61.00 trillion, an augment of KRW 10.06 trillion YoY, while working profit for the quarter positioned an evidence KRW 14.07 trillion, an augment of KRW 5.92 trillion YoY.

In the second quarter, the mechanism businesses flocked chief earnings growth, both YoY and QoQ, thanks chiefly to brawny reminiscence requirement for high-density DRAMs and SSDs for servers. System LSI donated to wages through amplified sales of AP and CIS foodstuffs whereas the Display pane Business prolonged sales of stretchy OLED panels for finest smartphones and high-value LCDs under steady prices. Profits from the Mobile Business, determined by healthy sales for the Galaxy S8 and S8+, also enlarged considerably QoQ.

The Memory Business tactics to enlarge the Pyeongtaek fab to react to growing requirement for V-NAND. The business too expects to use capex on changing a part of obtainable planar capacity to V-NAND. Despite the augment in 2017 capex for the Memory Business, the memory delivery viewpoint of Samsung for this year leftovers unaffected. The Foundry Business is growing 10nm capability to tackle claim for cutting-edge process technology. In addition, it anticipates allotting considerable capex for converting part of line 11 from DRAM to image sensor construction in the second half. Additional, Samsung is constantly spending in stretchy OLED capability to react to rising demand from consumers.

Semiconductor Maintains Strong Performance

The Semiconductor businesses positioned KRW 8.03 trillion in working profits on combined income of KRW 17.58 trillion for the quarter.The Memory Business attained solid wages expansion in the quarter appreciation to sustained muscular stipulate for high-density server DRAM and SDD, in spite of weaker cyclic requirement for mobile. Limited supply situations also stayed in the industry, which permissioned for positive supply-demand circumstances and prices. For NAND, wages were determined by prolonged sales of value-added goods, such as mobile foodstuffs over 64GB, datacenter NVMe SSD and venture SSD. For DRAM, Requirement for distinguish products, such as high-density server goods and HBM, donated to wages expansion.

Display Panel Continues Solid Earnings

The Display Panel section posted KRW 7.71 trillion in combined income and KRW 1.71 trillion in working profit for the quarter driven by augmented sales of premium OLED displays and high-end, large-size LCD panels.

In this Wednesday, July 26, 2017 photo, a visitor experiences Samsung Electronics Galaxy S8 smartphones at its shop in Seoul, South Korea. Samsung Electronics on Thursday, July 27, said its second-quarter profit surged 85 percent to record high thanks to memory chips. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

For the OLED business, wages enhanced QoQ on the back of augmented consignments of premium bendable demonstration for flagship smartphones while the LCD business proverbed productivity improved QoQ due primarily to enlarged sales of high-end, large-size UHD panels among unwavering ASP surroundings.

Mobile Division Posts Significant Increase

The IT & Mobile infrastructure (IM) Division placed KRW 30.01 trillion in merged income and KRW 4.06 trillion in working income for the quarter.

Samsung’s wages appreciably augmented QoQ driven by the sturdy sales of the Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones. The Galaxy S8 and S8+ have outperformed the Galaxy S7 series in approximately in all districts, thanks to the innovative perpetuity Display design and improved facial appearances together with water and dust proofing and iris acknowledgment. In general product merge too improved as the sales quantity of the Galaxy S8+ accounted for over 50 percent of the entirety Galaxy S8 series.

Consumer Electronics Focuses on Premium Products

As anticipated, Samsung registered a record operating profit of 14.07 trillion won ($12.6 billion US) in Q2 2017. Fascinatingly, the collapse exposes that while it’s mobile division’s (including Galaxy S8 / S8+) sales were up over the same period last year, earnings plunged to some extent, which Samsung credited to higher constituent expenses. Fortunately, since Samsung also makes chips for phones, storage space and more, that division flocked the documentation profit and appears balanced to carry on.

Looking forward, Samsung established an innovative Galaxy Note is approaching soon “with improved routine and facial appearances, to continue the brawny sales thrust of its premium smartphones, jointly through theGalaxy S8 and S8+.” In the meantime, it also says “continued augmentation is likely thanks to constant supply of 10nm mobile processors and enlarged supply of OLED DDIs for flagship smartphones.” Those OLED displays probable comprise not only its strategies but also the supposed OLED iPhone 8, which will reportedly arrive with displays made by Samsung.