News Earthquake may have affected 20,000 TSMC wafers — the majority will likely have to be scrapped

[Admin]

More details about the impact of Taiwanese earthquake impact on TSMC emerge: up to 20,000 wafers could be affected.

Earthquake may have affected 20,000 TSMC wafers — the majority will likely have to be scrapped : Read more

 

[FunSurfer]

"if a fabless company loses a batch of its processors, that might hurt its sales", hint for more bad luck for the 9800X3D availability?

 

[JTWrenn]

The real question is what were they making and who gets the down stream hit on the delays.

 

[why_wolf]

The real question is what were they making and who gets the down stream hit on the delays.

corect. If it was someone like Apple who is ordering millions of units, losing 10 or 20k is meaningless to them or the general consumer.

If it was a batch of 9800X3D which sells out instantly and seems to have a small production batchs then it matters a lot more.

TSMC will never tell us though.

 

[tamalero]

corect. If it was someone like Apple who is ordering millions of units, losing 10 or 20k is meaningless to them or the general consumer.

If it was a batch of 9800X3D which sells out instantly and seems to have a small production batchs then it matters a lot more.

TSMC will never tell us though.

Kinda reminds me when there was a huge shortage of Silicon.
I remember the news of almost 9 month delay for TSCM production.

 

[BFG-9000]

All the more reason not to locate everything in Taiwan or elsewhere in the Ring of Fire.

 

[gg83]

3 million wafers at $25k each equals 75 billion a year. But aren't they charging closer to $50k per wafer at 3nm/2nm? So if 20k wafers were trashed that adds up depending on the node size right?