Taiwan Power Outage Posed Risk To Semiconductor Output
Taiwan accounts for well over half the world’s semiconductor foundry capacity and is regularly hit by natural disasters including typhoons and earthquakes, and so a power outage in the island has the potential to disrupt the world’s already-stretched semiconductor production, particularly at TSMC, the world’s largest semiconductor foundry.
By
Joseph F. Kovar May 13, 2021, 04:39 PM EDT
A power outage in Southern Taiwan that caused the company’s government-run Taipower power utility to institute rolling power blackouts across the island caused a brief disruption in power to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), semiconductor production at the company and across Taiwan appears to have suffered no disruptions.