South Korea's Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it expected fourth-quarter profits to be sharply down compared with the previous quarter, falling short of expectations as the company struggled to meet robust demand for chips used in artificial intelligence servers.

Samsung Electronics, the world's top memory chip maker, is expected to forecast on Wednesday its profit growth continued to slow in the fourth quarter as it struggled to keep up with Nvidia's strong demand for AI chips.

Samsung Electronics said today that it’s likely to miss analyst’s expectations on fourth quarter profit by a wide margin. Analysts blamed the miss on the poor performance of its high-end memory chips for artificial intelligence accelerators.

Samsung Electronics is expected to report a slowdown in profit growth for the fourth quarter, reflecting challenges in meeting Nvidia’s surging demand for AI chips. Analysts predict Samsung’s operating profit for the period will reach 8.