Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on
February 6 estimated wafer shipments in the first quarter of 2016 would
decrease less than 1% due to the impact of a large earthquake hitting
southern Taiwan in the early morning of February 6, but on February 12
indicated that the decrease in wafer shipments will be more than 1%,
because damage to Fab 14 is worse than originally assessed.
TSMC
originally estimated that more than 95% of foundry machines could be
restored to normal conditions in 2-3 days following the earthquake.
Machines at Fab 6 and Fab 14B have already been fully restored, the
company said.
Despite the earthquake, TSMC said it is
confident of hitting target consolidated revenues of NT$198-201 billion
(US$5.9-6.0 billion) for the first quarter of 2016.
Panel
maker Innolux indicated that the earthquake did not damage 3.5G and 4G
factories, but did affect 5G and 6G factories at STSP, with restoration
estimated to take a week. Innolux has shifted partial production from
factories at STSP to a factory in northern Taiwan to minimize the impact
on shipments, the company said.
In a bid to minimize
the impact of earthquakes, the STSP administration will cooperate with
the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering under the
government-sponsored National Applied Research Laboratories to set up an
earthquake early warning system and disaster information and analysis
mechanism.
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