SEOUL: South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics posted its biggest quarterly net profit for more than three years Thursday after shrugging off the fallout from the exploding Galaxy Note 7 battery debacle.

The results, driven by strong demand for its memory chips, represented the company's second-largest ever quarterly profit.

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