A chip division's year beats everything it earned across four decades

Claim

Samsung's chip chief told staff 2026 profit will beat everything the division earned across 40 years, putting the company on track to overtake Nvidia as tech's most profitable firm for the quarter, while CPUs became the new battleground and Nvidia hedged by partnering with rivals.

Reported metric: >40 years of profit

Reporting date: 2026-07-08 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to July 8, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)