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TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is reportedly dealing with the quality of its silicon wafers causing suspended production at one of its plants. Impact is to chips having 16/12nm features and major vendors such as NVIDIA are reportedly affected.
Translated from Chinese:
TSMC (2330) Nanke 14 Factory today (28th) reported the use of substandard chemical raw materials, causing paralysis of tens of thousands of wafer production. In this regard, TSMC confirmed and pointed out the detailed quantity and damage caused. Subsequent statistics and processing are underway and will not change the financial forecast for this quarter.
TSMC's Fab 14 B plant in Nanke has a problem with wafer quality defects today, mainly because TSMC imports a batch of substandard chemical materials, which causes wafers to be defective in the production process, but the problem is in the production process. It is impossible to check out that the number of wafers affected by the film has exceeded 10,000 pieces, and the production line has been temporarily suspended. Since 14 customers cover NVIDIA, MEDIATEK, Huawei Hisilicon and other heavyweight customers, the market is concerned about whether the operation is affected.
Also at Hard|OCP.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Tuesday January 29 2019, @07:09AM (2 children)
All the other chip makers with fabs are examining the market right now to calculate how much this means they can raise their prices. (Not to mention how to spend their increased bonus this year .)
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 29 2019, @10:39AM (1 child)
Just when the RAM memory prices were starting to fall after 2 years of collusion...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 29 2019, @11:33AM
Prices go UP UP UP and everybody's happy!