Components drive record Samsung profits as mobile sales slide

Samsung Electronics has reported Q1 earnings in line with its guidance: as predicted, the company made an operating profit of 9.9 trillion won (about $8.7 billion), its second biggest quarter ever and its highest ever figure for the January to March period. Revenue was 50.55 trillion won, or about $44.7 billion.
Samsung says that the record-breaking profit was down to strong sales in its components businesses: mostly displays and memory. Although the Galaxy S8 wasn’t released in this three