Apple component¹ suppliers took a share-price hit on Wednesday after the world’s biggest technology company said that its $999 iPhone X would be launched later than expected.

苹果(Apple)的零部件供应商在9月13日纷纷遭遇股价下跌，此前全球最大科技公司宣布其起售价999美元的iPhone X将晚于预期上市。

The UK’s Dialog Semiconductor² and IQE, which sell chips and parts to Apple for its smartphone, headed lower as trading opened.

向苹果销售智能手机芯片和零件的英国戴乐格半导体(Dialog Semiconductor)和IQE公司，一开盘股价就开始走低。

IQE, the semiconductor maker³, fell more than 6 per cent, while Dialog, which draws about three-quarters of its revenues from Apple, was down 1.2 per cent. AMS, an Austrian chipmaker that this week touched all-time highs, fell 3.9 per cent.

半导体制造商IQE的股价跌幅超过6%，而四分之三收入来自苹果的戴乐格股价下跌1.2%。本周股价曾触及历史高位的奥地利芯片制造商AMS股价下跌了3.9%。

The iPhone X, Apple’s “super premium⁴” handset, will not be available until November, compared with the company’s usual September releases, as planned for the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, which were also announced on Tuesday. The X boasts a number of new features, including facial recognition.

苹果的“超级高端”手机iPhone X不会在11月前上市，而往年该公司都是在9月发售新机，同样是在9月12日发布的iPhone 8和8 Plus就定于9月下旬上市。X拥有许多新的功能特性，包括人脸识别。

The trading highlighted the dependence⁵ of a global ecosystem⁶ of businesses on the Californian company and an associated rise in market volatility⁷ around its announcements. Analysts⁹ also noted¹⁰ that almost every feature revealed by Apple on Tuesday relied on custom chips that it designs in-house, suggesting it would be reducing its use of outside suppliers in future.

这些行情突显出一个全球企业生态系统对这家加州公司的依赖，以及在其宣布的前后市场波动性随之上升。分析师们还指出，苹果在9月12日宣布的几乎每一项功能，都依赖于其内部设计的定制芯片，这似乎表明该公司将来可能减少对外部供应商的使用。

In Asia, Apple supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world’s biggest contract chipmaker, dropped 0.5 per cent. In China, other Apple-linked stocks fell.

在亚洲，苹果供应商、全球最大芯片代工商台积电(TSMC)股价下跌了0.5%。在中国，其他苹果概念股的股价也纷纷下跌。

In New York, Apple’s own shares were 1.3 per cent lower in midday trading. They have risen nearly 40 per cent so far in 2017.

在纽约，苹果自己的股价收盘下跌0.8%。2017年迄今该股上涨了近40%。

“Companies live and die by their relationship with Apple,” said Ben Wood, an analyst⁸ at CCS Insight, who suggested that the market move was linked to “some expectation built in to the volume of components¹¹ that would be sold?.?.?.?that failed to materialise [Tuesday] night”.

CCS Insight的分析师本?伍德(Ben Wood)说：“企业与苹果的关系决定着它们的存亡，”他认为市场的走向与一些预期相关，“这些预期建立在零部件的销量上……而9月12日晚这些预期落了空”。

He added that the issue only stood to affect the stock prices of suppliers in the near term, pointing to “pent-up demand”. “The biggest challenge will be satisfying the huge demand for iPhone X,” he said.

他补充道，这一问题只会在近期影响供应商的股价，指出存在“被压抑的需求”。他说：“最大的挑战将是满足对iPhone X的巨大需求。”