SEOUL (Reuters) -Samsung Electronics on Tuesday projected a 32% rise in third-quarter operating profit from a year earlier, beating analysts' estimates by far, as demand for conventional memory chips helped offset weaker high bandwidth memory chip sales. The world's largest memory chipmaker estimated an operating profit of 12.1 trillion won ($8.5 billion) for the July-September period, which would mark its highest quarterly profit in more than three years, well above a 10.1 trillion won LSEG SmartEstimate. Samsung’s third-quarter results underscored strong demand for server and AI-related chips, which have boosted prices and shipments of conventional DRAM and NAND products. "The third-quarter earnings surprise came from the chip business," said Ryu Young-ho, a senior analyst at NH Investme

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