Samsung Electronics reported disappointing fourth-quarter 2024 results for its Mobile Experience (MX) and Network (NW) divisions, as new product sales failed to meet expectations. The South Korean tech giant plans to unveil the Galaxy S25 series on February 7, 2025, hoping to reverse the downward trend, according to local media reports.

Samsung Electronics’ Device Solutions (DS) division has reported weaker-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter of 2024, grappling with a series of challenges that have raised concerns within the semiconductor industry. Experts point to five major obstacles currently facing Samsung’s semiconductor business: falling prices for general-purpose DRAM, delays in HBM deliveries, slowing demand for enterprise solid-state drives (eSSDs), widening losses in its foundry business, and escalating tensions between the US-China conflicts that may be difficult to resolve in the short term.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who was notably absent from Donald Trump’s inauguration, visited the White House on January 31, 2025, for a meeting with the US president. According to The Financial Times (FT), Tesla CEO Elon Musk, currently an advisor to Trump, made an unexpected last-minute appearance and joined the discussion.

Component manufacturers foresee that the emergence of DeepSeek may attract the interest of additional enterprises engaged in innovative AI applications, stimulate the advancement of further AI application services, and accelerate the dissemination of AI applications within edge devices.