Younger employees in Samsung Electronics' Mobile Experience division are increasingly choosing voluntary retirement as the company's device businesses come under strain from surging component costs and widening pay gaps with the semiconductor unit. Industry sources said some employees born in the 1990s proactively asked about eligibility and compensation, departing from Samsung's usual practice of targeting more senior CL4-level staff for such programs. The backdrop is Samsung's first quarterly operating loss in the DX Division, which covers mobile, TVs, home appliances and networks. DX posted second-quarter revenue of about 48 trillion won and an operating loss of about 800 billion won to 818.8 billion won, while the MX business recorded an operating loss of roughly 700 billion won. Samsung's disclosures indicate sharply higher memory costs were a major factor: the DS chip division benefited from a roughly 220% rise in memory selling prices in the first half, while DX's mobile memory procurement prices rose about 211%, and smartphone price increases did not fully offset that pressure. Reported voluntary retirement packages are sizable, at around 400 million won for some CL2 employees and about 800 million won for CL4 employees including PSUs, with the PSU portion reportedly guaranteed at a 200% payout. Internal discontent has also been fueled by bonus differences after a May wage agreement created special performance bonuses only for the DS division.