Samsung said operating profit was at 6.5 trillion Korean won ($5.5 billion), which was slightly better than an industry estimate of 6 trillion won, but was down about 56% from a year earlier.
Samsung Electronics said on Friday that profits for the three months that ended June more than halved from a year earlier following continued weakness in price and demand of memory chips.
Memory components, which are used in mobile handsets and enterprise servers, comprise Samsung's main profit-making business.Jung Yeon-Je | AFP | Getty Images The world's largest smartphone maker and supplier of memory chips said operating profit was at 6.5 trillion Korean won , which was slightly better than an industry estimate of 6 trillion won, but was down about 56% from a year earlier.
Experts have said that the entire semiconductor sector is undergoing a period of inventory adjustment, which is keeping demand low and causing a supply glut that's squeezing the price.in both DRAM and NAND memory chips, which would push back the sector's recovery to the second half of 2020.
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