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Isn't Taiwan also seismically active? They are reports of earthquakes affecting TSMC fabs in january 2025 and april 2024. Apparently these were not huge blows
by KeplerBoy 11mo ago
Isn't Taiwan also seismically active? They are reports of earthquakes affecting TSMC fabs in january 2025 and april 2024.
Apparently these were not huge blows to their fabs, otherwise we would be talking about that day-in-day-out, but there's always a risk of that happening.
- zamadatix 11mo agoSeems even more active, at least according to number of magnitude 6+ earthquakes since 1900 in the region https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=12.72608,101.84326&extent=49.56798,179.18701&range=search&search=%7B%22name%22:%22Search%20Results%22,%22params%22:%7B%22starttime%22:%221900-01-01%2000:00:00%22,%22endtime%22:%222025-11-24%2023:59:59%22,%22maxlatitude%22:45.951,%22minlatitude%22:20.303,%22maxlongitude%22:147.305,%22minlongitude%22:118.477,%22minmagnitude%22:6,%22orderby%22:%22time%22%7D%7D https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=12.72608...
- ehnto 11mo agoSeems silly to be talking about this as if this is some kind of global consortium effort. Japan is building Japan at semi conductor industry, for the benefit of itself, of course it is located in Japan.
- KeplerBoy 11mo agoSure, Japan and Taiwan have no choice. They have to build on their seismically active islands or give up, which is not an option.