Comments by "" (@ntabile) on "How TSMC Handled an Earthquake" video.

Same situation with me and my colleagues. We encountered power dips in the past. We have recovered broken tools, controllers become faulty, vacuum trips, wafer crashed etc. If only the company continously maintained and invested in back up UPS, for our tools...
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 @Kneedragon1962 Our problem right now in my country is that fab work were look down by the present generation as somewhat a 3D kind of job- Dangerous, Dirty and Demeaning.
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@fjalics Could be not cost effective, that is why management didn't care to maintain our tools with UPS. Some more, battery back ups are some more a fire hazard if not maintained or contained effectively.
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Dont you know that there's a fab somewhere in Australia? I knew that because a friend/colleague of mine who moved there 20 years ago, retired and ask me for some consultancy in moving out procedures for fab tools to other part of Down Under?
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@Gameboygenius Yeah, for defence industries.
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You're good! You pray and hope that people are mostly safe and have consoled those who are greatly affected. Anyway, That is why some Taiwanese fabs in Singapore is operating and expanding, no earthquake here. EDB of Singapore is partly investing on those fabs too.
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Yes for Lithography. As mentioned and replied by Gameboygenius
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The Intel in Costa Rica is Final Assembly and Test industry isn't it?
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