News Taiwan hit with 7.4 earthquake, endangering tech supply chain

[Admin]

The biggest quake in 25 years struck off of the island's east coast and chipmaker TSMC evacuated some factories.

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[watzupken]

Jensen is going to be black faced if he can't get enough Blackwell chips ready for sale at ridiculous price.

 

[bit_user]

7.4 magnitude is pretty major. I definitely want to know what sort of impact this will have on supply chains, but...

Considering the 26 building collapses, let's try not to forget the human toll, here.

 

[The_Future_Is_Here]

I'll be brutally honest here,

The price of some comodity silicon chips increasing is frankly irrelevant when put in contrast to the potential loss of life that has likely occurred as a result of this Natural Disaster.

People have died, buildings have collapsed, people are likely still trapped under rubble.
This is a horrible disaster to have occurred and I can only hope that as many people as possible made it through the incident alive & well.

To all the people of Taiwan, my hopes & prayers are with you all.

 

[KyaraM]

I'm also far more concerned with the people dead, injured, and possibly trapped and cut off than the tech supply, honestly. It's good they evacuated the factories, probably reducing risk of further casualties. I hope for the victims and hope that there won't be any more aftershocks...

 

[umeng2002_2]

And here we go. It doesn't matter if these earthquakes actually disrupted production. What matters is that companies will use it as an excuse to raise prices.

I wouldn't be surprised if intelligence agencies make huge buys now, and the companies selling to them cloak the sales as production losses from the earthquake, as they've done in the past.

 

[newtechldtech]

7.4 magnitude is pretty major. I definitely want to know what sort of impact this will have on supply chains, but...

Considering the 26 building collapses, let's try not to forget the human toll, here.

26 buildings collapsed > only < ... they have good engineers for sure and no corruption ... Turkey lost half a million houses totally collapsed in last year earthquake of 7.8 scale ..

 

[Joseph_138]

Get ready for graphics card apocalypse part 2.

Buy your upgrades while you can still afford them.

 

[P.Amini]

I agree, every life is priceless and it's heartbreaking but the reality is we all are continuing to live our lives and do our stuff, if we can/want to help then it's great but regardless of that, life is going on... and this is a tech news which is doing it's job by viewing this aspect of the disaster. Regards..

 

[4freedomssake]

As others have stated, I'm more concerned about the toll on people's lives and they're well-being than anything that has to do with electronics right now. They are in my prayers.

 

[artk2219]

Jensen is going to be black faced if he can't get enough Blackwell chips ready for sale at ridiculous price.

I don't think thats the biggest concern here.

 

[artk2219]

26 buildings collapsed > only < ... they have good engineers for sure and no corruption ... Turkey lost half a million houses totally collapsed in last year earthquake of 7.8 scale ..

While I agree that they do seem to have designed well for a severe earthquake, something to keep in mind is that earthquakes are measured on a logarithmic scale, not linear. A 7.8 earthquake is more than double the shaking of a 7.4, its no mean feat to design structures to withstand the strength of these earthquakes. The big bang would measure around a 48 on the Richter scale.

"Increase the magnitude by 0.1, and you multiply the shaking by 10^(0.1), or about 1.259—an increase of 26%. Increase the magnitude by 0.3, and the shaking almost exactly doubles. That's a handy rule of thumb to keep in mind. Shaking isn't the only way to compare earthquakes."

https://www.science.org/content/article/comparing-earthquakes-explained

 

[bit_user]

The big bang would measure around a 48 on the Richter scale.

LOL, I hadn't heard that! I wonder what a supernova would be rated, at about the distance of a star's usual radius.

Shaking isn't the only way to compare earthquakes.

Yeah, other factors include: the distance from the fault, the type of soil your building is on (see also: liquefaction), and something I now forget about different wave types.