Samsung likely to report 60% decline in Q2 profit, lowest in 3 years

Samsung Electronics is likely to say second-quarter profit more than halved when it reports preliminary earnings on Friday, data showed, as a drop in memory chip shipments to China's embattled Huawei exacerbated a price-squeezing supply glut.

The quarterly result would be the South Korean firm's lowest in nearly three years, with the prospect of an earnings recovery still some quarters away as a period of oversupply continues unabated amid a broader slowdown in tech markets, analysts said.

The world's biggest supplier of DRAM and NAND memory chips is also the world's largest maker of smartphones, a market where chip client