The numbers aren't suspect, the journalist just segued into a second topic without being clear. The outage happened at the Pyeongtaek plant, which according to

The numbers aren't suspect, the journalist just segued into a second topic without being clear. The outage happened at the Pyeongtaek plant, which according to Wikipedia has capacity of 450,000 chips per month[1]. Making the maximum estimated damage only 13% of monthly production capacity, not 50%. The Xi'an plant is a completely different plan, which is beginning an expansion at the end of the month that should add 200k/month of additional capacity at that plant. Nifty fact, but not immediately relevant to the outage that happened. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...