富士康22年來首現收入下滑
Apple supplier Hon Hai has chalked up its first fall in revenues in more than two decades on the back of the drop in iPhone sales last year.
蘋果(Apple)供應商鴻海集團(Hon Hai)20多年來首次出現收入下滑，原因是iPhone去年銷售下降。Taiwan-based Hon Hai, also known as Foxconn, said that annual sales fell 2.8 per cent to NT$4.36tn ($137bn). It is the contract manufacturer’s first fall in revenues since 1994, according to Bloomberg data.
總部位於臺灣的鴻海（也被稱爲富士康(Foxconn)）表示，年度銷售額下滑2.8%，至4.36萬億新臺幣（合1370億美元）。根據彭博(Bloomberg)的數據，這是這家代工製造商自1994年以來首次出現收入下滑。Apple, which accounts for about half of Hon Hai’s sales, said that sales dropped by 7.7 per cent in the year to September 2016, the first decline in 15 years and a sharp reversal from the 27.9 per cent growth rate the year before. Smartphone growth is stalling more broadly while Chinese manufacturers — which are less reliant on third party contractors such as Hon Hai — are taking market share from Apple and Samsung.
鴻海約一半銷售額來自蘋果，而蘋果表示，在截至2016年9月的一年裏，其銷售額下滑7.7%，爲15年來首次下滑，與前一年27.9%的增速相比出現明顯逆轉。智能手機行業正出現更廣泛的增長停滯，同時中國大陸製造商（它們不那麼依賴像鴻海這樣的第三方代工製造商）正從蘋果和三星(Samsung)那裏奪取市場份額。
Hon Hai’s drop in revenues — profit numbers were not disclosed — comes as the manufacturer ploughs billions of dollars into Sharp, the Japanese electronics maker it bought last year.
鴻海在收入下滑（利潤數據未披露）之際，正向其去年收購的日本電子公司夏普(Sharp)投入數十億美元。Last March it agreed to pay ￥388.8bn ($3.7bn) for a two-thirds stake in Sharp, giving the Apple assembler a century-old electronics brand and the technology know-how that pioneered solar panels and liquid crystal displays (LCDs).
去年3月，鴻海同意出資3888億日元（合37億美元）購入夏普三分之二股權，由此獲得了一個擁有百年曆史的電子產品品牌以及太陽能面板和液晶顯示屏(LCD)相關技術。Plans include buying back licensing rights in an attempt to rebuild the Sharp TV brand and an $8.8bn factory in China to manufacture LCDs.
鴻海的計劃包括回購品牌使用權，以重塑夏普電視品牌，還有在中國內地投資88億美元建設一家LCD工廠。Atul Goyal, technology analyst at Jefferies, questioned the logic of some of these efforts, pointing to over-capacity in the LCD market at a time when smartphone makers are starting to look instead at alternative OLED screens, which is championed by South Korean companies such as LG Display.
Jefferies科技分析師阿圖爾?戈亞爾(Atul Goyal)對鴻海部分舉措的合理性提出質疑。他指出，目前LCD市場已出現產能過剩，因爲智能手機制造商開始把目光轉向有機發光二極管(OLED)屏幕，樂金顯示(LG Display)等韓國公司就倡導這種屏幕。“They are spending $8.8bn building capacity for LCD panels in China. This industry is already in excess, and they are building more.”
“他們正花費88億美元，在中國內地建設LCD面板生產廠。這個行業已出現過剩，他們還要增加產能。”Japan Display, another Apple supplier and backer of LCDs, last month received $640m in financial aid from a government-backed fund in a bid to strengthen its position in the latest OLED screen technology.
上月，蘋果的另一家供應商、LCD廠商Japan Display，從一個政府支持基金那裏獲得6.4億美元資金援助，旨在增強其在最新的OLED屏幕技術方面的地位。
