Earthquake in Taiwan leaves minimal damage to chip fabs

Author: EIS Release Date: Sep 27, 2022

Last Saturday evening an earthquake magnitude 6.4 on the Richter scale occurred in Guanshan Township, Taitung, Taiwan killing one person and injuring three people.

 

Despite derailing a train and causing the collapse of a bridge and several buildings there  are no reports of substantial  damage to semiconductor fabs, says TrendForce, and the worst effect in chip plants was that some machinery required initialisation after crashing.

 

Nanya  has already carried out a shutdown inspection and, says TrendForce, if there was any wafer damage, the company maintains sufficient inventory to compensate. 

 

Micron recalled engineers to inspect equipment and has confirmed no losses. 

 

The capacity utilisation rate of both companies has not been affected nor has supply.

 

The panel makers have been in oversupply and should be unaffected.