--- title: "Samsung's quarterly operating profit surged by 755%, with the chip sector making a strong upward move, and the STAR Chip ETF Bosera rose over 2%" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/281822020.md" description: "Samsung announced an operating profit of 57.2 trillion won for the first quarter of March 2026, a year-on-year increase of 755%, setting a new historical high. Revenue reached 133 trillion won, exceeding market expectations. The STAR Chip Index rose by 2.28%, and the Bosera STAR Chip ETF increased by 2.16%. GF Securities pointed out that the semiconductor industry is driven by new technologies such as AI, with growing demand in automotive electronics and new energy sectors. The Bosera STAR Chip ETF has attracted 16.1955 million yuan in nearly 20 trading days, closely tracking the SSE STAR Chip Index" datetime: "2026-04-07T02:54:14.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/281822020.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/281822020.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/281822020.md) --- # Samsung's quarterly operating profit surged by 755%, with the chip sector making a strong upward move, and the STAR Chip ETF Bosera rose over 2% As of April 7, 2026, 10:23, the SSE STAR Chip Index (000685) surged by 2.28%, with constituent stocks such as Shengke Communication rising by 11.34%, Lianyun Technology by 10.04%, and Cambricon by 8.56%. Stocks like Dongxin Co. and Xinyuan Co. also followed suit. The STAR Chip ETF Bosera (588990) increased by 2.16%, with the latest price reported at 2.45 yuan. Looking at a longer timeframe, as of April 3, 2026, the STAR Chip ETF Bosera has accumulated a rise of 0.92% over the past two weeks. In terms of liquidity, the STAR Chip ETF Bosera had a turnover of 3.24% during the day, with a transaction volume of 15.9839 million yuan. Over a longer period, as of April 3, the average daily transaction volume of the STAR Chip ETF Bosera over the past year was 58.3106 million yuan. On the news front, Samsung announced that its preliminary operating profit for the March quarter was 57.2 trillion won (approximately 37.9 billion USD), soaring 755% year-on-year, setting a historical high, while analysts had an average expectation of 39.3 trillion won. Revenue climbed to 133 trillion won, exceeding the market average expectation of 116.8 trillion won. Guangfa Securities pointed out that in recent years, led by new technologies such as AI, the semiconductor sector has shown the following trends: the penetration and demand growth of new technologies and products in fields such as automotive electronics, new energy, the Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence are important drivers of growth in the semiconductor sector. At the same time, the continuous advancement of domestic production is imperative, with the domestic wafer manufacturing and its supporting industries accelerating development. In terms of capital inflow, the latest capital inflow and outflow for the STAR Chip ETF Bosera are balanced. Over a longer period, in the past 20 trading days, it has "attracted" a total of 16.1955 million yuan. The STAR Chip ETF Bosera closely tracks the SSE STAR Chip Index, which selects securities from companies listed on the STAR Market involved in semiconductor materials and equipment, chip design, chip manufacturing, and chip packaging and testing as index samples to reflect the overall performance of representative chip industry listed companies on the STAR Market. Data shows that as of March 31, 2026, the top ten weighted stocks in the SSE STAR Chip Index (000685) are SMIC, Haiguang Information, Cambricon, Lattice Semiconductor, Zhongwei Company, Xinyuan Co., Baiwei Storage, Tuojing Technology, Yuanjie Technology, and Huahong Company, with the top ten weighted stocks accounting for a total of 60.99%. The STAR Chip ETF Bosera (588990) has off-exchange connections (Bosera SSE STAR Chip ETF Initiated Connection A: 022725; Bosera SSE STAR Chip ETF Initiated Connection C: 022726). 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