Samsung may have lost the race for acquiring EUV equipment to TSMC, but the battle is not over yet.

Tech powerhouse Taiwan started phased blackouts islandwide on Thursday after an outage at a coal- and gas-fired power plant hit 6 million homes, as the government worked to resume normal supply by evening.

In April, smartphone shipments in China fell short of forecasts. Considering the recent solid demand, we attribute the sluggish shipments to supply issues (including a chip shortage) rather than demand issues. Shipments and sales are expected to improve as supply shortages ease in 2H21.

With the market for flash memory only expected to grow, Western Digital CEO David Goeckeler says the U.S. chipmaker sees Japan's Kioxia Holdings as a long-term partner that is key to staying competitive against big Asian rivals.

Samsung Electronics said it expects chip profits to rise in the second quarter as customers seek to secure stock amid a global chip shortage, that will likely hit device production and mobile profits that same quarter.

SK Hynix, the world's No.2 memory chip maker, said on Wednesday it will bring forward planned capital spending but warned supply increases from the investment will come only next year, pointing to a prolonged global Semiconductor shortage.

Renesas Electronics said Wednesday that smoke broke out around 4:30 p.m. the same day (7:30 a.m. GMT) at its flagship Semiconductor plant in eastern Japan.

Park Jung-ho, CEO of SK Telecom, suggested on April 21 that SK Group would ramp up investment in the foundry business amid a global shortage of Semiconductors.

Memory chipmaker Nanya Technology on Tuesday announced it will build a $10 billion chip plant intended to alleviate a severe global Semiconductor shortage and capture growing demand for 5G-related components.

Samsung Electronics' Austin plant is expected to be fully normalized in June at the earliest.

The White House hosted a Semiconductor industry conference on April 12 and, contrary to earlier forecasts, it did not urge Samsung Electronics to invest in the United States.

Chinese enterprises are coping with the United States’ Semiconductor supply chain reshaping and equipment export restrictions by buying up used equipment.

The chief executive of Intel Corp told Reuters on Monday the company is in talks to start producing chips for car makers to alleviate a shortage that has idled automotive factories.

SEC announced preliminary 1Q21 OP of W9.3tn (+3% q-q). Despite being a traditional off-season, SEC delivered sound earnings growth thanks to solid performances at the IM and CE divisions.

The Biden administration has put a big focus on addressing an ongoing shortage of Semiconductors that are used in a range of devices from cars to computers, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Thursday.