The Spring Festival mobilized Taiji to send 300 people to the south to save

Nanke Park continued to stop work in the morning, and when it resumed normal operations, it is still undetermined. Reporter Xie Jinsheng / Photography

Zhang Zhongmou shared the wafer double-hung Nanke factory area after the 206 Nantai strong earthquake was hit, they all started the crisis treatment at the first time, and issued the "Spring Festival emergency mobilization order." TSMC dispatched more than 300 employees from Zhuke and Zhongke to assist south, and UMC also asked employees in the affected factories to stop. The two males plan to resume work within three days, and the equipment manufacturers believe that they have "beyond international standards."
Industry insiders pointed out that TSMC and UMC play a key manufacturing role in the global semiconductor industry. Among them, TSMC Nanke's customers include Apple, Qualcomm, MediaTek and other first-tier manufacturers, whose production lines are shut down, and the mobile phone supply chain is undermined; UMC is also important for the Internet of Things. Supply chain, wafer duo Nanke plant production blocked, has caused great concern in the global electronics industry.

Semiconductor equipment manufacturers pointed out that Taiwan is in the seismic zone, and the wafer duo has been rich in the procedures for dealing with seismic standards, including dealing with fragmentation on the production line. However, the epicenter of the strong earthquake was in the Taiwanese advanced process base camp in South Taiwan, so that the two companies did not dare to ignore.

Compared with the past epicenters in the vicinity of non-factory areas in eastern Taiwan, the wafer duo is affected to a large extent. It is necessary to clean up the wreckage caused by the production of the machine due to the stoppage of the machine, and more importantly, part of the production process. The gas and other pipelines are loose, and it is necessary to check the leak-free gas one by one before returning to work. Otherwise, employees will be allowed to enter the factory. If the employees are in danger, they will face a longer period of work stoppage investigation.

According to the equipment manufacturer, the wafer duo has a large production capacity in Nanke's production base, and the plant area is also quite large. It is necessary to conduct a comprehensive inventory check to ensure that there is no work safety concern. If it is a general manufacturer, it will take five to seven days to resume production. The two males will resume work within three days, "has exceeded international standards."

TSMC has a wafer 6 plant and a wafer 14 plant in Nanke, which are 8-inch and 12-inch wafers respectively. Among them, 14 plants are mainly 16nm and 20nm advanced processes, and are the OEMs for the production of Apple A9 processors. Heavy town.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. spokesperson Sun Youwen said that TSMC has a comprehensive emergency response mechanism. After the earthquake, all employees at the two wafer fabs in Tainan have been evacuated. After confirming the safety, employees will return to the factory. The TSMC Nanke Plant is large in scale and requires more manpower to complete the re-confirmation. Sun Youwen said that more than 300 employees from the Hsinchu and Taichung factories have been deployed to support the project. The project will be resumed and the target will be restored by more than 95% within three days. The station operates to complement the damaged wafers of customers.

UMC said that the fragments affected by the earthquake need to be checked one by one. In order to speed up the normal operation of the production line, all the employees of Nanke have returned to the production line, and all follow the internal standard operating procedures. UMC assessment, due to strong earthquakes, the company should have small losses in a short period of time, but it is expected to have no significant impact on the overall operation of the company under the emergency dispatch manpower to assist in the recovery of production and the normal operation of the Hsinchu factories.

[Reporter Qiu Xinyi/Taipei reported] After the strong earthquake, many officers of the South Branch Administration rushed out to the park and set up an emergency response team at 5 am yesterday (6) to observe and coordinate at the Nanke Pumping Station. The situation, assisting the needs of the park manufacturers, the LINE group established by the response team and constantly understanding and reporting the latest status of important equipment and buildings.


Wafer double male 206 South Taiwan strong earthquake damage situation map / economic daily report