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Fabs deal with earthquakes by stopping. They'd rather not stop.
by sanxiyn 5y ago
Fabs deal with earthquakes by stopping. They'd rather not stop.
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- culturestate 5y agoThis still doesn't make sense to me. If seismic stability is a top-of-mind problem, why do they keep building new fabs in Taiwan? Why not move to diversify higher-end production sooner? Why build in Arizona, a state which - while less seismically active than Taiwan - has multiple active faults and regular earthquakes? It really seems like "a place that's flat and has a relatively low occurrence of natural disasters" is more of a would-be-nice than a must-have.