It comes after the pay deal was agree on Wednesday following a five-month dispute between the Korean teach giant and labour union
Thousands of Samsung workers will receive a bonus of about £300,000 ($400,000) each off the back of the AI boom.
A new profit-sharing agreement will see 78,000 chip workers share a bonus worth 10.5% of semiconductor operating profits, with the bonus set to be largely paid in stocks.
It comes after the pay deal was agree on Wednesday following a five-month dispute between the Korean teach giant and labour union. The union said 74% of the 62,616 workers who cast their votes had backed the deal.
The union had previously threatened an 18-day strike if a deal could not be pushed through, which could have disrupted global chip supplies.
The amount each person will receive will vary depending on their role, but Bloomberg reports that workers will get 513 million won (£250,000) on average.
But other estimates by Yonhap News say the payouts could be worth 600 million won (£300,000). This is almost four times the average wage earned by a Samsung employee in 2025.
The bonuses will go to unionised technical staff and exclude subcontractors – but not staff at the consumer electronics division that makes Samsung smartphones and laptops.
It comes after Samsung saw its market valuation top $1trillion (£740billion) as investors continued to back AI-linked stocks.
Its most recent financial update saw Samsung report its operating profit had surged more than eightfold to 57.2 trillion won (£28.4billion), while revenue climbed to a record 133.9 trillion won (£66.5billion).
The stock market valuations of chipmakers SK Hynix and Micron also soared above the $1trillion mark this week. SK Hynix last year promised 10% of operating profits for the next 10 years.
Other tech giants that are valued at more than $1trillion include Nvidia, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google-owner Alphabet and Meta.
It comes after new analysis revealed technology and artificial intelligence (AI) firms earn up to £194,000 from using the data of each UK internet user over their lifetime.
Some of the world’s biggest and most powerful companies collect and monetise personal data to power the internet, Web3 Foundation found in a report.
The study looked at a vast range of ways that people leave a digital footprint, from search queries, clicks and location signals, through to online purchases, messages, uploaded images and social media posts.
Bill Laboon, vice president of technical operations for Web3 Foundation, told the Press Association: “People should be aware that their data is being used and monetised by all kinds of other entities.
“It’s a privacy issue. Likely people do not understand or realise that whenever they’re asking a question on ChatGPT, when they are selecting a spell check correction… that’s being used.”
