<div style="overflow-x:auto;width:100%"><table class="catchall-table"><thead><tr><th style="min-width:40px">#</th><th style="min-width:240px">Event</th><th style="min-width:140px;white-space:nowrap">Production Impact Description</th><th style="min-width:140px;white-space:nowrap">Shortage Component Type</th><th style="min-width:140px;white-space:nowrap">Shortage Severity</th><th style="min-width:140px;white-space:nowrap">Affected Company</th><th style="min-width:140px;white-space:nowrap">Shortage Report Date</th><th style="min-width:120px;white-space:nowrap">Source</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td style="min-width:240px">Raw Material Shortage Impacts PCB Production and Prices</td><td style="min-width:140px">Waiting times for chemical materials such as epoxy resin have increased from three weeks before to 15 weeks.</td><td style="min-width:140px">high purity polyphenylene ether (PPE) resin, epoxy resin, glass fibre, copper foil</td><td style="min-width:140px">PCB prices increased by up to 40 percent. Waiting times for chemical materials increased from 3 to 15 weeks.</td><td style="min-width:140px">South Korea-based PCB manufacturer Daeduck Electronics</td><td style="min-width:140px">2026-04-27</td><td style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://harici.com.tr/devre-karti-uretiminde-ham-madde-tedariki-savasa-takildi" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://harici.com.tr/devre-karti-uretiminde-ham-madde-tedariki-savasa-takildi</a></td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td style="min-width:240px">Semiconductor Crisis Impacts Automotive Industry in Romania</td><td style="min-width:140px">lack of cars in stock and extended delivery times of up to a year from the date of the order</td><td style="min-width:140px">semiconductors</td><td style="min-width:140px">hard</td><td style="min-width:140px">entire automotive industry</td><td style="min-width:140px">2026-04-21</td><td style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.wall-street.ro/articol/Auto/278539/pwc-autofacts-romania-va-avea-o-crestere-de-doar-0-7-a-vanzarilor-de-autoturisme-si-vehicule-comerciale-usoare-noi-in-acest-an.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.wall-street.ro/articol/Auto/278539/pwc-autofacts-romania-va-avea-o-crestere-de-doar-0-7-a-vanzarilor-de-autoturisme-si-vehicule-comerciale-usoare-noi-in-acest-an.html</a></td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td style="min-width:240px">Chip Shortage Affects Device Availability and Network Equipment</td><td style="min-width:140px">Reduced availability of devices due to chip supply reduction</td><td style="min-width:140px">chips for cell phones, tablets and computers</td><td style="min-width:140px">Reduced supply and availability, leading to price increases</td><td style="min-width:140px">Apple and Samsung devices are no longer available in the same quantities</td><td style="min-width:140px">2026-05-07</td><td style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.swissinfo.ch/ita/swisscom%3A-%22non-escluso-nuovo-aumento-tariffario-per-wingo%22/91382031" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.swissinfo.ch/ita/swisscom%3A-%22non-escluso-nuovo-aumento-tariffario-per-wingo%22/91382031</a></td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td style="min-width:240px">Apple Faces Chip Shortage Limiting Growth</td><td style="min-width:140px">limiting the company's growth and affecting the iPhone 17 Pro product line.</td><td style="min-width:140px">chips and core processors (SoC)</td><td style="min-width:140px">limiting company's growth, worse than usual supply chain flexibility, expected to last several more months.</td><td style="min-width:140px">Apple also mentioned this issue at its earnings meeting last week. The shortage of iPhone and Mac chips is limiting the company's growth.</td><td style="min-width:140px">2026-05-05</td><td style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.cw.com.tw/article/5140939" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.cw.com.tw/article/5140939</a></td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td style="min-width:240px">Electronic Component Shortage Causes Production Halts</td><td style="min-width:140px">Long lead times are increasingly causing halts in production.</td><td style="min-width:140px">electronic components, MLCCs</td><td style="min-width:140px">increasingly causing halts in production, becoming more extreme</td><td style="min-width:140px">manufacturers</td><td style="min-width:140px">2026-04-23</td><td style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.supplychainbrain.com/blogs/1-think-tank/post/31658-how-to-deal-with-longer-component-lead-times" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.supplychainbrain.com/blogs/1-think-tank/post/31658-how-to-deal-with-longer-component-lead-times</a></td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td style="min-width:240px">Global Chip Shortage Impacts Manufacturing Production</td><td style="min-width:140px">forcing a production line to stop, and not being able to share production capacity</td><td style="min-width:140px">semiconductors and chips</td><td style="min-width:140px">delivery periods stretching from 8 weeks to 52 weeks, and materials fried to dozens of times the normal price</td><td style="min-width:140px">many manufacturing companies</td><td style="min-width:140px">2026-05-06</td><td style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.chinaz.com/2026/0506/1750413.shtml" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.chinaz.com/2026/0506/1750413.shtml</a></td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td style="min-width:240px">Microcontroller Shortage Causes Production Line Stoppages</td><td style="min-width:140px">Stopping the assembly line due to a shortage of three microcontrollers brings losses to factories</td><td style="min-width:140px">microcontrollers</td><td style="min-width:140px">losses to factories in the range from 500,000 to 800,000 rubles per shift</td><td style="min-width:140px">factories</td><td style="min-width:140px">2026-05-14</td><td style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://msknovosti.ru/kaleidoscope/postavka-elektronnyh-komponentov-audit-spetsifikatsiy-kontrol-kachestva-i-logistika-partiy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://msknovosti.ru/kaleidoscope/postavka-elektronnyh-komponentov-audit-spetsifikatsiy-kontrol-kachestva-i-logistika-partiy</a></td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td style="min-width:240px">Huawei Semiconductor Supply Cut</td><td style="min-width:140px">supply of semiconductors cut off, leading to inevitable future shortages</td><td style="min-width:140px">semiconductors</td><td style="min-width:140px">inevitable shortage</td><td style="min-width:140px">Huawei</td><td style="min-width:140px">2026-05-02</td><td style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.storm.mg/keyword/%E8%8F%AF%E7%82%BA%E4%BE%9B%E6%87%89%E9%8F%88" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.storm.mg/keyword/%E8%8F%AF%E7%82%BA%E4%BE%9B%E6%87%89%E9%8F%88</a></td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td style="min-width:240px">Holms Crisis Causes Material Shortages and Production Shutdown Risks</td><td style="min-width:140px">Concerns of production shutdowns due to a shortage of components are becoming a reality.</td><td style="min-width:140px">resin, aluminum and naphtha</td><td style="min-width:140px">serious disruption, causing a shriek on the manufacturing floor</td><td style="min-width:140px"></td><td style="min-width:140px">2026-05-08</td><td style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://matomedane.jp/ponzu/page/206150" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://matomedane.jp/ponzu/page/206150</a></td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td style="min-width:240px">LG Electronics and Nvidia Cooperation Amid Chip Shortage</td><td style="min-width:140px">price of personal computers (PCs) has been increased by 15%-20%</td><td style="min-width:140px">chips</td><td style="min-width:140px">soaring chip prices, price of personal computers (PCs) has been increased by 15%-20%</td><td style="min-width:140px">LG Electronics</td><td style="min-width:140px">2026-04-29</td><td style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.tradingkey.com/zh-hant/news/stocks/261835442-reuters" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.tradingkey.com/zh-hant/news/stocks/261835442-reuters</a></td></tr><tr class="row-locked"><td>11</td><td style="min-width:240px">Samsung and SK Hynix Warn of Lingering AI Memory Chip Shortage</td><td style="min-width:140px">customers are already booking memories for 2027, and production capacity for the latest HBM4 is completely sold out</td><td style="min-width:140px">memory chips for AI</td><td style="min-width:140px">lingering shortage, may intensify, lasting until 2027</td><td style="min-width:140px">Samsung and SK Hynix have warned of a lingering shortage of memory chips for AI</td><td style="min-width:140px">2026-05-04</td><td style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.tut-news.ru/obshchestvo/novosti-segodnya-za-4-maya-2026-goda-arest-glavy-krasmasha-markirovka-knig-o-chikatilo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.tut-news.ru/obshchestvo/novosti-segodnya-za-4-maya-2026-goda-arest-glavy-krasmasha-markirovka-knig-o-chikatilo</a></td></tr><tr class="row-locked"><td>12</td><td style="min-width:240px">AI-fueled memory chip shortage impacts device prices and internet expansion</td><td style="min-width:140px">slowing efforts to expand Internet access globally, making smartphones and routers more expensive, and pushing global smartphone shipments down.</td><td style="min-width:140px">memory chips</td><td style="min-width:140px">very tense, described as a 'tsunami' in the memory supply chain, with prices doubling in some segments and imbalance felt.</td><td style="min-width:140px">null</td><td style="min-width:140px">2026-04-20</td><td style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://3e-news.net/bg/a/view/68908/ai-izjajda-evtinite-chipove-za-masovite-ustrojstva-kak-nedostigyt-na-pamet-zabavja-internet-ekspanzijata" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://3e-news.net/bg/a/view/68908/ai-izjajda-evtinite-chipove-za-masovite-ustrojstva-kak-nedostigyt-na-pamet-zabavja-internet-ekspanzijata</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div>