TSMC Damaged by Earthquake, Could Impact NVIDIA GPU production

[Mr_Troll]

TSMC Damaged by Earthquake, Could Impact NVIDIA GPU production

 

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The recent 6.4 magnitude Taiwan earthquake, which hit the island nation on February 6th, affected TSMC worse than expected. Taiwan's premier semiconductor foundry, TSMC, had initially expected semiconductor wafer shipments to be down by less than 1%, but it is now emerging that the drop in shipments could be higher, because the damage to one of its facilities, Fab-14, is worse than originally assessed.

TSMC, in an official communication to its clients, assured that 95% of the foundry machines could return to functionality within 2-3 days after the earthquake. To that effect, machines in Fab-6 and Fab-14B have been fully restored. Despite the disaster, the company appears confident of reaching revenue targets of US $5.9-6.0 billion for Q1-2016. TSMC is the primary foundry partner of major fabless semiconductor companies, such as Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and AMD. AMD recently moved its next-generation GPU manufacturing to Korean silicon giant Samsung, while NVIDIA is building its next "Pascal" GPU family on TSMC's process

Makes me wonder how fast they will fix the damages that were done. Better idea would be to rebuild or move the fab somewhere else where its safe.

 

Source:http://www.techpowerup.com/220128/tsmc-hit-harder-than-expected-by-recent-taiwan-earthquake.html

[Castdeath97]

Title seems biased, don't think it will ever affect Nvidia

 

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TSMC, in an official communication to its clients, assured that 95% of the foundry machines could return to functionality within 2-3 days after the earthquake. To that effect, machines in Fab-6 and Fab-14B have been fully restored. Despite the disaster, the company appears confident of reaching revenue targets of US $5.9-6.0 billion for Q1-201

 

[Enderman]

"damages done" = extremely sensitive robotic manufacturing components misaligned by earthquake

 

solution = bring in engineers to realign the components for the chips to continue manufacturing

 

not that big of a deal tbh, its not like the roof collapsed

[LiamApex]

Meh

[Yoinkerman]

Yay we definitely need higher video card prices, because we haven't been paying enough since the 500 series

[don_svetlio]

250$ 960s?

[Sunako]

Title misleading nvidia part belongs in your opinion at most

[iamdarkyoshi]

3 minutes ago, Castdeath97 said:

Title seems biased, don't think it will ever affect Nvidia

 

 

agreed, its not like a RAM manufacturer had an issue with flame

[Vivilacqua1]

Whelp, still gonna get a 980ti and not wait for Pascel.

[Kobathor]

4 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

250$ 960s?

That's how much my friend got his 960 STRIX 2GB for from Micro Center.

[don_svetlio]

Just now, Kobathor said:

That's how much my friend got his 960 STRIX 2GB for from Micro Center.

my condolences

[Kobathor]

Just now, don_svetlio said:

my condolences

I made fun of it for a few weeks, but then I understood that he had absolutely no idea what he was doing when he bought it. Mind you, this was before the 4GB versions, but everywhere else it was ~$200 anyways. He never asked me first, so he kinda deserved it.

[Prysin]

21 minutes ago, Enderman said:

"damages done" = extremely sensitive robotic manufacturing components misaligned by earthquake

 

solution = bring in engineers to realign the components for the chips to continue manufacturing

 

not that big of a deal tbh, its not like the roof collapsed

the worst damage is DUST.

 

imagine what happens when you shake EVERY CRACK in a building in an enviroment that is insanely sensitive to dust. Aligning things, fixing broken wiring, water (often used for cooling systems), thats no biggie.

 

but cleaning a whole fab floor of 100% of every spec of dust. that is the issue at hand. Mechanical damage is just a few days downtime at worst. Cleaning can take a week maybe two or three weeks since we are talking of ridiculously sensitive equipment.

[don_svetlio]

27 minutes ago, Kobathor said:

I made fun of it for a few weeks, but then I understood that he had absolutely no idea what he was doing when he bought it. Mind you, this was before the 4GB versions, but everywhere else it was ~$200 anyways. He never asked me first, so he kinda deserved it.

Not to mention the R9 280Xs going for 250$ back then

[corsairian]

This reminds me of tje flooding that caused ram to go up in price. Im glad that they probably wont lose money on this. 

[AlexGoesHigh]

Good thing this didn't turn out that badly the last thing we need is a GPU shortage that turns into the insanity that was HDD shortages a few years ago.

[That Norwegian Guy]

I've worked in a clean room factory. If they get it up (as they assured) in 2-3 days, there's no doubt in my mind that they are severely abusing their work force doing so. There's no shitting way they'll get a dusty clean room fab up to speck-free state in 3 days unless they drive them to the brink of death.

[dragosudeki]

Isn't TSMC behind or done though? Thought the new chips were pretty much produced by Samsung and GlobalFoundries for both AMD and Nvidia.

[Watermelon Guy]

9 minutes ago, dragosudeki said:

Isn't TSMC behind or done though? Thought the new chips were pretty much produced by Samsung and GlobalFoundries for both AMD and Nvidia.

No, tsmc is making pascal. Samsung is making polaris high end and Zen. GlobFo Is making Polaris low end. Nvidia are using tsmc only I think (there using the 16nm) amd are using samsung and glofo's 14nm process. 

[ApolloEleven]

is Samsung better than TSMC? Or vice versa?

[DXMember]

3 hours ago, Mr_Troll said:

TSMC Damaged by Earthquake, Could Impact NVIDIA GPU production

 

Makes me wonder how fast they will fix the damages that were done. Better idea would be to rebuild or move the fab somewhere else where its safe.

 

Source:http://www.techpowerup.com/220128/tsmc-hit-harder-than-expected-by-recent-taiwan-earthquake.html

isn't it already in the source topic??

they say that all fabs are fully running and functional

[azurezeed]

meh, nothing serious, i don't think this will impact gpu production by much

[Bensemus]

AMD stops using TSMC. 

TSMC is hit by earth quake that negatively impacts it's main competitor. 

AMD caused that earth quake

[vanished]

4 hours ago, don_svetlio said:

250$ 960s?

You mean that's not normal for you? 

[don_svetlio]

33 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

You mean that's not normal for you? 

You're right, they've always been overpriced