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posted by martyb on Tuesday January 29 2019, @02:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-so-fab-ulous dept.

https://translate.google.com/translate?u=https://www.ettoday.net/news/20190128/1367970.htm&sl=zh&tl=en

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday January 29 2019, @09:11PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday January 29 2019, @09:11PM (#793747) Journal

    Agreed, but Intel is in a position of printing money they don't really deserve. They probably have over 95% of the server CPU market right now. AMD has to fight tooth and nail just to survive, while Intel has plenty of room to fail and coast. So a fab-related issue would hit AMD harder than Intel. AMD is also just one of several TSMC customers, and they don't have control over what goes on at TSMC.

    I guess if TSMC screws up big time, AMD will start holding discussions with Samsung, which would be one of the last bleeding-edge options available. Worst case scenario, AMD could pay Intel [intel.com] to fab some of its chips.

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