SEOUL, Oct 14, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Samsung Electronics forecast a 32 percent jump Tuesday in third-quarter operating profit from a year earlier, beating market expectations as solid demand for conventional memory chips offset weaker sales of high-bandwidth memory products. The South Korean tech giant estimated an operating profit of around 12.1 trillion won (US$8.5 billion) for the July-September period, the largest quarterly earnings since the second quarter of 2022. The figure was 17.4 percent higher than the average estimate, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency, which cited its own financial data firm. The results highlighted firm demand for server and artificial intelligence chips, which drove higher prices and shipments of conventional NAND and DRAM memory. The company "has reclaimed...