Since Taiwan is located in a seismically hazardous area, from time to time there some earthquake Historically, that today are located in Taiwan, many advanced production, without which the electronics market will experience major problems. This can happen if the power will be aftershocks strong enough to permanently stop the factories of the same company TSMC. For example, 21 September 1999 Taiwan earthquake of magnitude 7.3, brought down the production of TSMC.
Earthquake in early February last year stopped the production of the largest contract chip manufacturer in the world for a few days. Also it came down about 5% of the company's production equipment lines. Because at the time TSMC has been the sole manufacturer of the latest processors for Apple devices, there were fears that supplies could be disrupted a plan of this company. Fortunately, everything worked out without significant losses for the industry as a whole. However, concerns have not gone away.
The other day in southern Taiwan was another earthquake. The push was at a distance of 12.2 km from the city of Tainan, where there are two factory TSMC: Fab 14 and Fab 6. Stop lines were no longer than a day, which is almost does not have an impact on TSMC's revenue and on its production plans. Fortunately, the 10-nm semiconductor company produces at Fab 15, which the earthquake has not affected. The magnitude of the shock in the epicenter was at 5.6. In the factories TSMC push was between magnitude 4 and 5.