Taiwan earthquake likely to impact PC and mobile phone manufacturing
Earthquake in Taiwan: Experts say that everything will depend on how long the chip manufacturing work remains affected. Tech or car companies keep stock of chips with them. In such a situation, disruption in chip manufacturing for a few days will not make much difference, but disruption in manufacturing for a long time will affect the production of items like mobile phones and PCs.
The catastrophic earthquake in Taiwan may affect the manufacturing of mobile phones, PCs and cars. Due to the earthquake in Taiwan on Wednesday, the entire life there got disrupted and the world's largest chip manufacturing company, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is also not untouched by it. TSMC has evacuated its chip manufacturing unit and according to the information received, it cannot be said with certainty as to when production will resume at TSMC's unit.
More than 61% of all chips manufactured worldwide are produced by TSMC. The earthquake has also had an impact on the United Microelectronics unit, another chip manufacturing company based in Taiwan. Chips from TSMC are supplied to major tech companies such as Nvidia and Apple.
Experts predict that everything will depend on how long the disruption to chip manufacturing lasts. Chip stocks are kept on hand by tech or auto companies. A few days of manufacturing work disruption in this case won't have much of an impact on chip production, but prolonged manufacturing work disruption will have an impact on the output of devices like PCs and mobile phones. since nearly all electronics products use chips.
The most powerful earthquake in 25 years that hit Taiwan on Wednesday shook people. Nine people have lost their lives and more than 900 are injured due to the earthquake of magnitude 7.4 which occurred at 8 am. At the same time, 50 hotel employees are missing, while 77 people are trapped in rocky tunnels and buildings. A tsunami 30 cm high hit the shores of Japan 15 minutes after the earthquake in Taiwan. After the incident, rescue workers are busy evacuating the people safely.
