Imagine a really bad quake… Everything has to be realigned. Their perfectly manometer aligned tech suddenly moves 3 inches in all directions, so it must be re-alighned before it can continue making good chips. Even today will have an effect on prices, but imagine a week or a month of no chip making!
i think on the richter scale an earthquake of this size moves everything like 12+ feet.
That’s a lot of alignment work.
Well, here’s an excuse to raise the price of chips just like the bird flu for eggs, even though egg production wasn’t affected.
Oh boy, it sure was a good idea to rely on one company, with facilities located in just one country, for almost all production of an essential component that basically all modern technology needs in order to work.
Yeah of course they are, Taiwan gets hit by earthquakes like this regularly.
Not earthquakes this big. There hasn’t been one this size there in 25 years.
