Seoul: Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest maker of reminiscence chips, stated on Wednesday that macroeconomic uncertainties are anticipated to be excessive this yr however vowed to embrace a brand new alternative within the rise of synthetic intelligence (AI).
“Though uncertainties within the macroeconomic atmosphere are anticipated to be excessive this yr, new alternatives will even be elevated by way of next-generation technological improvements, such because the full-scale AI period,” Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman and CEO Han Jong-hee instructed an annual assembly of shareholders.
Han instructed shareholders the electronics large would proceed to make efforts to broaden technological innovation in AI and new companies for sustainable development, experiences Yonhap information company.
Samsung Electronics plans to pay 9.8 trillion gained (US$7.3 billion) price of dividends for 2023, Han stated.
Final yr, Samsung Electronics posted a internet revenue of 15.48 trillion gained, down 72.2 per cent from a yr earlier, hit by sluggish demand for semiconductor. Gross sales fell 14.3 per cent on-year to 258.93 trillion gained final yr.