三星电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.

三星电子(Samsung Electronics)警告说，由于其智能手机部门受到了中国廉价竞争对手的冲击，第三季度其盈利将同比下滑60%。

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

这家韩国集团盈利下滑，令部分人将它与诺基亚(Nokia)和摩托罗拉(Motorola)等曾经如日中天的生产商相提并论。

“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分析师理查德•温莎(Richard Windsor)表示：“三星正日益走上其同代生产商的老路。如果市场份额继续下跌……三星将越来越类似于其他陷入长期困境的Android手机制造商。”

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.

过去一年里三星的盈利一直在下滑，这种趋势在昨天该公司发布的初步指引中达到顶峰。根据指引，在截至9月30日的三个月里，该公司的营业利润将为4.1万亿韩元（合38亿美元），这将是三年多来的最低水平。

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

目前，该公司正在艰难应对华为(Huawei)、联想(Lenovo)和小米(Xiaomi)等中国竞争对手的威胁，这些中国品牌在亚洲的销量正在不断增长。

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.

根据研究集团IDC的数据，今年第二季度三星在智能手机市场的占有率为25%，低于一年前的32%。