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By Chung li-hua, Shih Hsiao-kuang and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writerDefending Taiwan is something Taiwanese must do on their own, United Microelectronics Corp （UMC, 聯電） founder Robert Tsao （曹興誠） said, adding that those who doubt the US’ commitment to Taiwan aim to “dampen morale” and “create panic within Taiwan.”
About 5.49 million households yesterday lost power in one of the nation’s largest power disruptions since 2017 due to a switch malfunction at Kaohsiung’s Hsinta Power Plant (興達電廠), the Ministry of Economic Affairs said. The incident sent the power plant offline, leading to a circuit malfunction at the Longqi Extra High Voltage Substation (龍崎超高壓變電所), which caused several power plants in the south to shut down. About 10.5 million kilowatts was lost during the incident, Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) said. The Hsinta plant accounts for about 6 percent of the nation...
LIGHTS OUT: Taipower activated liquefied natural gas, hydroelectric and coal-fired power plants to make up for a malfunction that shut down plants in the southBy Lisa Wang / Staff reporter
United Microelectronics Corp (UMC, 聯電), the world’s third-largest contract chipmaker, is to invest US$5 billion in a new manufacturing facility in Singapore to make 22-nanometer chips, it said yesterday. The first phase of the investment would add 30,000 12-inch wafers per month to UMC’s capacity, with production expected to start in 2024, the Hsinchu-based chipmaker said in a statement. The new facility would be built next to UMC’s other Singapore 12-inch fab, Fab12i. The new plant comes as chip supply remains tight due to demand from 5G applications, Internet-of-Things devices and ...
Taipei, Feb. 22 (CNA) Shares in Taiwan took a beating Tuesday, tumbling more than 250 points with market sentiment spooked by escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine.