Samsung – Worldwide microchip shortage is impacting production.

According to co-CEO Koh Dong-jin, Samsung is continuing to feel the effects of the global microchip shortage.

At Samsung's annual meeting in Seoul, Koh cited the "serious imbalance in supply and demand of chips in the IT sector globally" as a potentially major issue for Samsung in 2021, according to Bloomberg. The chip shortage has wreaked havoc all over the world, from car to video game console production.

Samsung is expected to announce and release two major smartphones in 2021: the annual updates to the Galaxy and Galaxy Note flagship smartphones.

Though Samsung makes its own chips, the company's smartphones are reliant on third-party components - such as processors from Qualcomm.

Apple, however, produces its own processor for the iPhone, which enables the company circumvent some of the supply issues facing electronics manufacturers in 2021.

The processor shortage issue is "affecting everybody except Apple," according to Samsung Securities analyst MS Hwang.

Moreover, Apple's main production partner in China has reassured its customers that the chip shortage won't impact production much.

"Since most of the customers we serve are large customers, they all have proper precautionary planning," Hon Hai Precision Industry chairman Liu Young-way said in February, according to Reuters. "Therefore, the impact on these large customers is there, but limited."

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