Taiwan earthquake affects the mobile phone and notebook industry chain

According to the China Earthquake Networks Center, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 03:57 on February 6 in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan (22.94 degrees north latitude, 120.54 degrees east longitude), with a focal depth of 15 kilometers.

As we all know, Taiwan is one of the world's major semiconductor production bases. After all, TSMC is located there. TSMC has also been affected by the earthquake, and some of its factories have stopped production.

According to Taiwan Economic Daily, TSMC's 14A plant production line is expected to resume production on Friday and Saturday this week. In addition, UMC's Nankai plant was also shut down before. Supply chain companies said that this has disrupted the production of mobile phones or laptop computers such as Apple iPhone 5se, Xiaomi and Huawei, and orders are backlogged, which may drag down the entire mobile phone or laptop industry.

It is understood that Factory 14A is still under repair. If it is estimated that work will resume in another two or three days, the shutdown time may reach one week.

In addition, SMIC's Beijing factory was hit by a power outage earlier, and upstream companies' supply was put to the test. At the same time, key component manufacturers such as some key panel and flexible circuit board manufacturers located in Tainan and Kaohsiung were more or less affected by water shortages and power outages, causing a congestion in new product orders.

Apple is about to release a new product, and it should be in the preparation stage for launch. This earthquake has made Apple feel very sad.

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