{"id":223097,"date":"2026-03-13T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/samsung-concerned-over-potential-mobile-business-losses-due-to-memory-costs\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T05:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:55:10","slug":"samsung-concerned-over-potential-mobile-business-losses-due-to-memory-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/samsung-concerned-over-potential-mobile-business-losses-due-to-memory-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung &#8216;concerned&#8217; over potential mobile business losses due to memory costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/phones\/samsung-galaxy\/samsung-concerned-over-potential-mobile-business-losses-due-to-memory-costs\">Samsung &#8216;concerned&#8217; over potential mobile business losses due to memory costs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/phones\/samsung-galaxy\/samsung-concerned-over-potential-mobile-business-losses-due-to-memory-costs\">https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/phones\/samsung-galaxy\/samsung-concerned-over-potential-mobile-business-losses-due-to-memory-costs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-13 05:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidcentral.com\">www.androidcentral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-you-need-to-know-3\">What you need to know<\/h2>\n<ul id=\"e0077366-8be4-4596-b690-f259b62d3071\">\n<li>A report claims that Samsung is growing &#8220;concerned&#8221; over its Q1 2026 profits, as it might post an operating loss.<\/li>\n<li>This could be due to the rising costs of memory and semiconductors required for its mobile devices, which has supposedly pushed Samsung to cut costs regarding executive travels.<\/li>\n<li>Samsung reported that its Galaxy S26 series has been smashing pre-order records in South Korea and that pre-orders are up 25% for the series in the U.S.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"02888b0f-bbba-468d-9fd5-b23437136da3\">There have been concerns over the smartphone market&#8217;s future in 2026 due to the rising costs of memory, and those worries continue with Samsung.<\/p>\n<p>A report from Hankyung (South Korean) claims that Samsung has become &#8220;concerned&#8221; over this year&#8217;s operating profits, as it might wind up in the negative (via 9to5Google). Social media tipster Jukan highlighted the report, stating that the Korean OEM could &#8220;post its first-ever operating loss&#8221; this year, which might force it to &#8220;cut costs.&#8221; The publication cites its industry source by claiming Samsung might &#8220;struggle&#8221; due to the rising costs of memory and semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p id=\"02888b0f-bbba-468d-9fd5-b23437136da3-2\">This is a struggle that&#8217;s caused some worry across the board in the smartphone market, so this isn&#8217;t too much of a surprise to hear. It&#8217;s not clear right now just how badly Samsung is expecting to lose; however, what&#8217;s been reported is its cost-cutting measures.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-continues-below block py-2 text-sm\">Article continues below <\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"\n            flex\n            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]\n            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]\n            font-article-heading pb-0 !text-base uppercase sm:text-sm font-bold\n        \"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Supposedly, Samsung is looking to &#8220;drastically&#8221; cut the amount of funds available for overseas travel expenses for its top executives. The publication adds that Q1 2026 could be the worst for the company.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-bad-to-be-determined-3\">How bad? To be determined<\/h2>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\">\n<p><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Derrek Lee \/ Android Central)<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"fce2bade-1b07-4cc9-ac0c-93d0117ba305\">We&#8217;ve been seeing the warning signs about &#8220;higher-priced phones&#8221; for a while now. Android Central even discussed why this could be the case, and why budget phones might be the hardest ones hit. It&#8217;s been estimated that memory prices will climb an additional 20% in 2026 after being expected to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/phones\/samsung-galaxy\/samsung-concerned-over-potential-mobile-business-losses-due-to-memory-costs\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung &#8216;concerned&#8217; over potential mobile business losses due to memory costs https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/phones\/samsung-galaxy\/samsung-concerned-over-potential-mobile-business-losses-due-to-memory-costs Publish Date: 2026-03-13&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/vjRMreUJs5Uw67B6UQwJYg-1934-80.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-223097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223099,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223097\/revisions\/223099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}