Component shortages hit smartphone sales as Samsung spends big on chip plant

Global smartphone sales were down by almost 24 million in the third quarter of this year compared with the same period last year, hit by the ongoing component shortage.
Sales to end users came in at 342.3 million in the three months to the end of September, a decline of 6.8% on the year-earlier quarter, Gartner’s figures show.
The analyst firm, which earlier this year predicted that the worldwide semiconductor shortage will last into next year, noted that component shortages hit production