business hub in singapore, where suranjana tewari is following the story. what is behind the numbers? samsung is seen as an industry bellwether because it supplies to big tech firms like apple and sony, so with this 28% jump in operating profits between july and september, it seems quite good, and it is also its highest quarterly profit in three years, $10.5 billion. an increase of $1 billion since last year. they are best known for smartphones, last year. they are best known forsmartphones, but last year. they are best known for smartphones, but these results are driven by memory chips inside mobiles, personal computers and servers, and it saw a profit surge of 8% year on year. so how has it been so successful? it is still benefiting from that close to covid booing. it recovered on the world economy but tech companies have