The
operations of TSMC, whose clients include Apple Inc and Qualcomm
Inc, are being closely watched by its customers and investors
due to a global shortage of chips for everything from cars to
washing machines.
Alice Cheng, deputy head of the Tainan science park where the
plant is based, said an underground power line was accidentally
severed during construction work in the late morning but that
most supply to all the factories there had resumed as of 7 p.m.
(1100 GMT).
She added some of TSMC's machines were able to run on
electricity generated by back up systems during the outage.
TSMC, the world's largest contract chip maker, said its facility
experienced a power outage due to "an abnormality with a power
line to the South Taiwan Science Park extra high voltage
substation".
"Personnel in the fab were not evacuated. Power was restored the
same day. TSMC is currently evaluating the impact," it said in a
statement to Reuters.
TSMC reports its first quarter earnings on Thursday.
(Reporting by Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard; Editing by Kim
Coghill and Mark Potter)
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