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TSMC “still assessing” chipmaking facilities after 7.4-magnitude quake hits Taiwan
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Imagine a really bad quake.... Everything has to be realigned. Their perfectly manometer aligned tech suddenly moves 3 inches in all directions, so it must be re-alighned before it can continue making good chips. Even today will have an effect on prices, but imagine a week or a month of no chip making!
i think on the richter scale an earthquake of this size moves everything like 12+ feet.
That's a lot of alignment work.