The south side of Kīlauea volcano is experiencing ongoing volcanic collapse, detected through onshore geodetic monitoring. However, as most of this area is underwater, offshore monitoring is crucial to track the full deformation from this event. This study introduces the initial seafloor geodetic data on Kīlauea, validating the mobility of its submerged southern flank.

 

 

 

Live view of the flow.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Bqudj0x0POA?feature=shared

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is going to hurt.

 

 

I do a lot of business with Taiwan. I'm waiting to see how badly this will affect my supply chain.

 

I do a lot of business with Taiwan. I'm waiting to see how badly this will affect my supply chain.

Most of the larger fabs are on the other side side the island but the internal fab supply chain will be affected and product in production during the quake will be a risk if stopped for more than a day (sometimes even hours) at critical steps.

 

Most of the larger fabs are on the other side side the island but the internal fab supply chain will be affected and product in production during the quake will be a risk if stopped for more than a day (sometimes even hours) at critical steps.
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https://www.npr.org/2024/04/03/1242564161/taiwan-earthquake-semiconductor-chips-tech

 

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/03/1242564161/taiwan-earthquake-semiconductor-chips-tech

this is BAD, for all of us ...

 

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/03/1242564161/taiwan-earthquake-semiconductor-chips-tech

The news is pretty good but it sucks to be in a critical engineering recovery mode.

The chipmaker said more than 70% of its chipmaking tools had recovered within 10 hours of the earthquake, and that the recovery of chip equipment operations at its most advanced factory, Fab 18 in the southern city of Tainan, had recovered 80%.

United Microelectronics' CFO Liu Chitong told Nikkei Asia that the world's third-largest contract chipmaker had also evacuated production facilities. "Some chipmaking machines did stop and now our team is working to restart the production machines as soon as possible," he said.

Display makers Innolux and AUO both evacuated facilities.

Sources at TSMC said that some wafers were cracked at factories in Hsinchu and that some machinery was halted. Many expected to have to work over the holidays as a result.

But as the day went on, companies including Foxconn, United Microelectronics and Winbond all said there would be no significant effect on finances.

TSMC's N3 fab in Tainan "saw its beams and columns broken, and the production lines have been halted. EUV machines have all stopped, while its R&D lab also saw its wall cracked." The same source also said that a TSMC fab in Hsinchu is also seeing pipelines broken. The production line has been halted due to extensive damaged wafers.

If they just went into 'safe' mode (gas and chemical isolation) and wafer cleanup that's easy to recover from and not too expensive. It's when you lose power and critical water, things get ugly quickly then. Typically there is industrial level UPS power for the most critical loads like photo, ultrapure water, inert gases, ventilation, waste handlers and things that go boom if not kept under the right conditions. Then you have emergency onsite generation of several MW to take the total load off the UPS. A total power loss of seconds means a massive chip scrap.

They all got lucky the quake was on the other side of the island.