Samsung Elec Q2 profit likely to drop 39%

A man passes by the Samsung Electronics Co. logos at its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. (AP / Ahn Young-joon) Samsung Electronics is expected to forecast a 39 per cent plunge in second-quarter operating profit on Tuesday, weighed down by delays in supplying advanced memory chips to artificial intelligence chip leader Nvidia. The world's biggest maker of memory chips is projected to report an April to June operating profit of 6.3 trillion won (US$4.62 billion), its lowest income in six quarters, according to LSEG SmartEStimate. The prolonged weakness in its financial performance has deepened investor concerns over the South Korean…