三星電子第三季度盈利或下滑60%

Samsung Electronics warned that its third-quarter earnings would fall 60 per cent from a year earlier as cheaper China competitors sent its smartphone division reeling.

三星電子(Samsung Electronics)警告說，由於其智能手機部門受到了中國廉價競爭對手的衝擊，第三季度其盈利將同比下滑60%。

The reversal in fortunes for the Korean group prompted some to draw parallels with once-dominant producers such as Nokia and Motorola.

這家韓國集團盈利下滑，令部分人將它與諾基亞(Nokia)和摩托羅拉(Motorola)等曾經如日中天的生產商相提並論。

“Samsung is getting closer to the fate of its peers,” Richard Windsor, analyst at Edison, said. “If market share continues to fall . . . Samsung will come closer to joining the long-suffering ranks of every other Android handset maker.”

Edison分析師理查德•溫莎(Richard Windsor)表示：“三星正日益走上其同代生產商的老路。如果市場份額繼續下跌……三星將越來越類似於其他陷入長期困境的Android手機制造商。”

Samsung’s earnings have been on a slide over the past year, culminating in yesterday’s preliminary guidance that operating profit for the three months to September 30 would be Won4.1tn ($3.8bn), the weakest figure for more than three years.

過去一年裏三星的盈利一直在下滑，這種趨勢在昨天該公司發佈的初步指引中達到頂峯。根據指引，在截至9月30日的三個月裏，該公司的營業利潤將爲4.1萬億韓元（合38億美元），這將是三年多來的最低水平。

It is struggling against the threat from Chinese competitors such as Huawei, Lenovo and Xiaomi, which are enjoying growing sales across Asia.

目前，該公司正在艱難應對華爲(Huawei)、聯想(Lenovo)和小米(Xiaomi)等中國競爭對手的威脅，這些中國品牌在亞洲的銷量正在不斷增長。

Samsung’s smartphone market share was 25 per cent in the second quarter, down from the 32 per cent share reported a year ago, according to the research group IDC.

根據研究集團IDC的數據，今年第二季度三星在智能手機市場的佔有率爲25%，低於一年前的32%。