Taiwan has encountered the strongest earthquake in 25 years. Although the foundation of the foundry leader was announced, the recovery rate of the wafer plant has exceeded 80 %; Taiwan official also said that the three major scientific parks have been successful, but the market estimates that Taiwan is due to strong earthquakes due to strong earthquakes due to strong earthquakesThe loss of the losses may be as high as NT $ 10 billion or more (more than S $ 420 million).
Taiwan Hualien County Twenty-kilometer southeast of the government.On April 3), a strong earthquake with a depth of 15.5 kilometers and a 7.2 Richter scale occurred at 7.58 am, and the size of Richeli was the most serious earthquake in Taiwan in 25 years.
Taiwan is the main production place of the world's most advanced semiconductor. It is estimated that 80%to 90%of the world's highest -end chips are produced in the local area, and there are no other places to replace it.
TSMC announced on Thursday (April 4) that the recovery rate of the wafer plant equipment has exceeded 80%, and the newly built wafer plant, such as the Walls 18 Factory, is expected to be fully restored that night.In addition, TSMC stopped working at construction sites across Taiwan. After confirming safety, construction was resumed on Thursday.
TSMC admits that a few equipment in some factory areas is damaged and affects the production of some production lines.In some production lines, it is expected to adjust the correction for a long time to restore automated production.
Although TSMC has not announced the degree of strong earthquake loss, the Taiwan Joint News quoted the estimation of the supply chain industry that the degree of influence may be larger than the 1999 earthquake in 1999.
The National Science and Technology Commission of the Taiwan Government announced on Thursday. As of noon that day, the manufacturer of the Hsinchu Science Park has successively returned.90 % of the re -machines can be completed on the same day; the operations of the main manufacturers of the main large manufacturers in the southern science park have been restored to normal operation.
However, seven major Taiwan fabry plants including TSMC, World, UMC, Lijician, South Asia, Winbond, and Wanghong, almost all of them were stopped due to the production line due to earthquakes.The Taiwan media estimated the monthly turnover of various industries. After this strong earthquake, the loss of wafers in the seven major industries may be more than 10 billion Taiwan dollars.
But market research institution Jiubang Technology issued a press release on Thursday that dueLosses are slightly impact.
According to statistics from the Taiwan Central Disaster Response Center, as of 4:25 pm on Thursday, the total earthquake caused a total of 10 deaths, 1067 injuries, 660 people who were trapped and 38 people lost contact.
Taiwan Foreign Ministry: 71 foreigners, including eight Singaporeans, were rescued
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan was also announced on Thursday. As of 4.30 pm on the same day, 71 people were rescued by trapped foreigners in the Hualien earthquake area, including eight Singaporean people.In addition, there are Canadian and Australian natives lost contact.
The heaviest Hualien County, which was affected, not only occurred in landslides, interruptions of external roads, but also damaged many buildings, and the four buildings were seriously inclined.When the president of Taiwan ’s Chief President Chen Jianren went to Hualien to investigate the disaster on Thursday, he announced that the central government would allocate 300 million NT $ 300 million for the emergency use of the Hualien County Government.
In addition, a Hall of Science and Technology in Donghua University, which is located in Hualien, is suspected to have a fire caused by earthquakes.The fire was extended for nearly 22 hours, and it was not extinguished until the early morning of Thursday. Fortunately, no one was casualties.The school initially estimates that it may take at least NT $ 400 million to rebuild.
