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Taiwan Earthquake: Taiwan was rocked Wednesday by a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake with at least nine people killed and over 1000 injured, causing widespread disruption in chip fabrication plants located in Taiwan for a few hours.
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The quake produced terrifying scenes across the island and rattled the region. It also offered one more warning about the concentration of the supplies of key computing supplies.
A major earthquake in Taiwan has halted some TSMC chip production lines, potentially impacting the manufacture of Apple devices (via Bloomberg). A...
TSMC Plants: “Some of the high-end chips need 24/7 seamless operations in a vacuum state for a few weeks,” analysts Bum Ki Son and Brian Tan said. “Operation halts in Taiwan’s northern industrial areas could mean some high-end chips in production may be spoiled.”