Toshiba shares rose 5.3% in Tokyo early on Thursday, outperforming a 0.8% rise in the benchmark Nikkei average

The "high-NA EUV" tool produces beams of focused light that create the microscopic circuitry on computer chips used in phones, laptops, cars and artificial intelligence devices

Country plans to increase local production of chips as well as displays, advanced chemicals, networking and telecom equipment, batteries and electronics

The world's largest maker of personal computers said it will acquire an 80% stake in Digital Era Enterprises and a 20% stake in PCCW Network Services, a holding company

The model is for Japanese and US businesses to jointly establish a new company, or else Japanese firms could set up a new manufacturing hub in the US

"The disruption ... on the international economic order; and the chance to grow would be much, much (more) significant than this one," chief trade negotiator John Deng said

A Korean firm that produces isopropyl alcohol, a raw material for cleaning chip wafers, is facing problems shipping to a Chinese firm that supplies wafers to a Samsung factory in China

An economist at a government-affiliated research institute warned that top chipmaker TSMC is speeding up expansion to the US and may decamp from Taiwan.

China's global share of the advanced technology market leapt from less than 4% in 1995 to 21.5% in 2018, a new report says

TSMC customers in Europe are far fewer than in other parts of the world, chairman Mark Liu told the company's annual shareholder meeting

The decision to centralize procurement is a sign that chip shortages may persist and are forcing companies to implement more aggressive measures

Apple supplier Foxconn and chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) are among firms looking to access Japanese know-how.