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May 14, 2021 | Commentary
Taiwan is fighting assertions that the world is too reliant on Taiwanese semiconductor foundries, given the current shortage affecting the auto sector. Photo by Luan Gjokaj on Unsplash
Editor’s note: This commentary was written by
Martin Chen, director of the Economic Division at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Atlanta. TECO Atlanta sponsored a Global Atlanta-organized forum in March on innovation, technology and the future of U.S. trade in Asia.
As the global consumption of consumer electronics, home office products and electric cars increases, the semiconductor industry in Taiwan has grown rapidly to meet the needs of the international community, despite a drought that media outlets have reported will reduce production in Taiwan.
2021/05/13 20:33 Economic Minister Wang Mei-hua Economic Minister Wang Mei-hua (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Economic Minister Wang Mei-hua (王美花) has announced that all power will be restored at 9:40 p.m. Thursday (May 13). A generator malfunction at Kaohsiung’s Hsin Ta Power Plant caused major power outages across Taiwan at 3 p.m. Thursday, affecting a cumulative total of 10 million households. Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) released an emergency statement Thursday afternoon, stating that it was not a power shortage problem but an issue in the high-voltage substation in Kaohsiung City that caused an abnormality in the power grid. It added that it has adopted a district-based rotation of power restoration, CNA reported.
Taiwan power resumes after outage, TSMC hit by brief dip
05/13/2021 12:58
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Tech powerhouse Taiwan resumed power early in the evening on Thursday following several hours of phased blackouts islandwide, a problem that briefly impacted major semiconductor firm TSMC.
Around 4 million homes were affected on the island of 24 million people after an outage at a coal- and gas-fired power plant that was connected to a failure of the electricity grid.
The world s biggest contract chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd, said some of its facilities suffered a brief power dip , but power had been restored.
Officials at three major science parks in Hsinchu, Tainan and Taichung, where TSMC and other semiconductor firms all have large operations, told Reuters there was no impact on the operations of the major chipmakers.
TSMC Survives Another Power Disruption That Affected 4 Million Taiwanese Users May 13, 2021 12:18 EDT
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) successfully managed a power blackout in Taiwan s Tainan province. TSMC operates its Fab 14 in Tainan s Nan-Ke district, and the outage is the second time this year that the plant has had to rely on backup electricity sources. However, unlike the previous outage, which saw power suspended to the facility, this time around, the facility maintained an uninterrupted power supply due to backup circuits.
TSMC s Nan-Ke Plant Experiences Short Voltage Drop But Backup Measures Keep Production Lines Running
Reports from Taiwan outline that the power outage primarily affected companies using the 22.8 kV power lines. It occurred as the Xingda Power Plant shut down due to an accident, and initial reports after the outage that surfaced late afternoon in Taiwan suggested that chipmakers, including TSMC and United Microelectronics Corpo
Taiwan says its power back to normal
2021-05-14 HKT 03:33 Share this story
A convenience store worker sits outside a darkened store during a blackout in New Taipei City. Photo: AP Tech powerhouse Taiwan resumed power late on Thursday following several hours of phased blackouts islandwide, a problem that briefly impacted major semiconductor firm TSMC.
Around 4 million homes were affected on the island of 24 million people after an outage at a coal- and gas-fired power plant that was connected to a failure of the electricity grid.
The world s biggest contract chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, said some of its facilities suffered a brief power dip , but power had been restored.