News TSMC resumes chip production following biggest earthquake in 25 years — incurred no damage to its critical tools

[Admin]

TSMC will resume production overnight following Taiwan's biggest earthquake in 25 years, saying there is no damage to "critical tools."

TSMC resumes chip production following biggest earthquake in 25 years — incurred no damage to its critical tools : Read more

 

[bit_user]

It can take an advanced chip months to make it through a fab, which requires perfect operation.

Realy?? I find that pretty hard to believe.

The main litho machines are so expensive and they don't have very many of them. So, I'm sure you can't tie up a litho machine too long, with a single wafer. As for the rest of the processing stages, I'd expect they could spend whatever's necessary to reduce the time consumed by those stages, since this industry is very time-sensitive. I'd be quite surprised if it took a wafer more than a couple weeks to go from blank wafer stock to a fully tested & packaged chip that's ready to sell.

 

[Max The Dragon]

Well, if that's true, chip prices will not spike up and we will not have an crisis here. I guess.
Good job tsmc.
But what about other manufactures that located in Taiwan?