Source: Wall Street News

On April 3, according to media reports, the production lines and operations of the foundries Guangda, Renbao, Weichuang, Inventec, and Heshuo are currently normal.

Guangda and Renbao said that some of the cabinets in the office have overturned, and the company and factory are currently operating normally. Weichuang and Yingyeda all said that the operation was normal; Heshuo pointed out that there were no problems in the Taiwan factory area, the production line was normal, and no personnel were injured.

Furthermore, the Central Taiwan Science and Industrial Park Administration said that it currently includes$Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM.US)$Major manufacturers such as Winbond, AUA, and Taiwan's Micron returned, and all operations were normal.

The China Administration of Science and Technology said that according to regulations, if the earthquake intensity was level 5 or higher, it will begin inspection operations such as factory inspection operations. Today, including parks such as Taichung, Houli, Nantou Zhongxing Xincun, Changhua Erlin, and Yunlin Huwei, the earthquake intensity was all level 4. After contacting various manufacturers, it was reported that everything is operating normally.

TSMC issued a statement in the morning saying that in order to ensure the safety of personnel, some factory areas have been evacuated in accordance with the company's internal procedures, and the industrial safety system is normal; details are yet to be confirmed. Currently, some of the quartz pipes in the TSMC plant are broken, some of the online wafers are damaged, and some machines have been suspended for shutdown inspection to avoid deviation. According to current estimates, the number of working hours will be affected within 6 hours, and the impact on TSMC's second-quarter earnings forecast is about 60 million US dollars. The overall impact is limited.

Earlier, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck the waters off Hualien County in Taiwan.

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