{"id":6718,"date":"2026-05-07T03:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/6718\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T03:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:11:08","slug":"samsung-halts-all-home-appliance-sales-in-china-as-pivot-to-ai-accelerates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/6718\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung halts all home appliance sales in China as pivot to AI accelerates"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it would end sales of all home appliance products in mainland China, retreating further from a consumer market increasingly dominated by domestic rivals<\/a> as the group doubles down on its far more profitable semiconductor business.<\/p>\n

Samsung\u2019s home appliance portfolio in China includes televisions, monitors, air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, dryers, vacuum cleaners and air purifiers. In a notice published on its official website, the company said after-sales services would continue as normal, adding that the move was made \u201cin response to rapidly changing market conditions\u201d.<\/p>\n

The company said its smartphone products would remain on sale in China, though the world\u2019s leading handset maker is struggling to compete<\/a> with a string of local rivals and Apple in the market. Samsung\u2019s smartphone market share in China has fallen from nearly 20 per cent in the early 2010s to less than 1 per cent today, according to IDC data.<\/p>\n

Samsung\u2019s withdrawal from a market where the firm has long faced pressure from lower-cost and increasingly sophisticated Chinese brands comes as the group continues a broader strategic shift towards its more lucrative semiconductor business.<\/p>\n

The company has seen its earnings soar in recent months amid the global artificial intelligence boom<\/a>, which is driving up demand for memory products. It reported revenues of 133.87 trillion won (US$92.3 billion) and an operating profit of 57.23 trillion won for the first quarter of 2026, exceeding its earnings for the whole of last year.<\/p>\n

The firm\u2019s share price in Seoul has risen 107 per cent so far this year, with Samsung\u2019s market capitalisation hitting a record high of 1,710.8 trillion won on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it would end sales of all home appliance products…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3628,134,5381,5382,127,276,223,112,33,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-6718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-samsung","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-device-solutions","11":"tag-idc","12":"tag-samsung","13":"tag-samsung-electronics","14":"tag-samsung-group","15":"tag-seoul","16":"tag-south-korea","17":"tag-wednesday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}