Taiwan Quake Seen Having Minimal Impact On TSMC

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The 7.4-magnitude earthquake that shook Taiwan on Wednesday morning likely will result in minimal disruption to production at the world's largest contract chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), better known as TSMC. But the disaster renews concerns about having too much leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing located in one region. X TSMC said it had halted operations after the quake but planned to resume production overnight into Thursday morning. "There is no damage to our critical tools including all of our extreme ultraviolet lithography tools," the company said in a statement. A small number of tools were damaged at some facilities, but the...