90-minute Power Outage in Taiwan Threatens Chip Manufacturing

[stimpy88]

Pretty sure it's been brought up before, but:
It still is absolutely flabbergasting to me these multi-billion dollar facilities don't have uninterruptible power. I know there are some limitations in space for such sub-systems, but in the US, even Casinos often have backup power.

Where is the need, if all it does is make your prices, and profits, go up?

 

[TheLostSwede]

Where is the need, if all it does is make your prices, and profits, go up?

Again, how would it benefit TSMC to have a production issues? It simply doesn't, as every time they screw up, they have to pay their customers damages due to their inability to deliver as per the contract.

 

[TheDeeGee]

You think it was Putin?

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Read China was capping usage.

 

[Udyr]

Redundancy is something you'd consider for some businesses in areas where outages are somewhat common.

The investment needed for a backup power in this case is probably not worth the times it will be used. You'd need a second power plant running 24/7 along with the main grid, just for an event that may happen once every 10-20 years (according to what @TheLostSwede indicated), and the upkeep of said backup would go directly to the consumer.

These guys probably did the math and the result was: not worth it.

 

[trparky]

just when you thought the prices on chips were coming on a downward trend.

RIP PC gaming.

 

[Octavean]

What, they never heard of an UPS,….???

Naturally I’m just kidding. It’s either laugh or cry.

 

[trparky]

Naturally I’m just kidding. It’s either laugh or cry.

If things don't start getting back to some kind of normalcy, I'm afraid this system I have on my desk will be the last fancy system I'll ever have.

 

[Lycanwolfen]

And the whole world wants to goto electric cars, Yet we cannot even keep power on these days.

 

[ThrashZone]

And the whole world wants to goto electric cars, Yet we cannot even keep power on these days.

Hi,
Yep Germany tried all green
Now they have a deal for a pipeline from Russia for energy.

 

[trparky]

And the whole world wants to goto electric cars, Yet we cannot even keep power on these days.

And that's something called irony.

 

[AsRock]

Display panel maker Innolux faced a voltage drop or shutdown

They not decided which one it was yet, hey maybe it was both haha.

 

[noel_fs]

im so bored of this, get your shit together im not gonna overpay for anything, i would rather play shit games on android

 

[R-T-B]

So far there are no reports of any issues at any of the semiconductor plants.

Don't let that stop the conspiratorial screaming...

They not decided which one it was yet, hey maybe it was both haha.

Innolux doesn't make great panels frankly. Their spec sheets tend to be as vague as that report.

And the whole world wants to goto electric cars, Yet we cannot even keep power on these days.

Electric cars don't require anything close to 100% uptime...

 

[Deleted member 24505]

a voltage drop lasting 400 to 1000 ms, and the company is assessing how this impacts them. jesus how did they manage the loss of power for so long

 

[R-T-B]

a voltage drop lasting 400 to 1000 ms, and the company is assessing how this impacts them. jesus how did they manage the loss of power for so long

1000ms = 1 second. I mean... sensitive electronics manufacturing might care, but most of us wouldn't even blink at this.

You think it was Putin?

No one but trolls thinks much of anything about this.

 

[TheLostSwede]

And this is how problems are "solved" in Taiwan.
I have no idea how this helps though.

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