There is a joke saying, TSMC is taking a nap, the global consumer electronics industry is panicking. At midnight on August 3, TSMC's 12-inch wafer factory and operation headquarters in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan, China shut down due to a virus in the computer. A few hours later, the same situation occurred at TSMC's Fab14 factory in Tainan Science Park and the Fab15 factory in Taichung Science Park. The
accident has attracted global attention. TSMC issued a statement on August 4 saying that some factories will return to normal within a short period of time, while others will return to normal within one day. On August 5, it claimed to have recovered by 80%. On the afternoon of August 6, it was declared that all returned to normal. On August 7, relevant personnel from TSMC confirmed that all the company's production lines resumed work.
We all know that TSMC's security system is tight. Computers in the factory are not equipped with USB jack, and all data access has restricted permissions. With such a strict security system, TSMC is attacked by viruses, which shows the strength of this virus.
has conspiracy theory believes that TSMC poisoning was caused by an outside attack, but TSMC emphasized that there were no hackers or internal ghosts, but artificial operation errors. The virus was brought in when new equipment was installed in the factory of Hsinchu Science Park. The Windows 7 operating system that runs key processes in the production facilities was not patched, and the 445 port was not closed, resulting in poisoning, which later spread to the Tainan Science Park and Taichung Science Park factory buildings.
At present, Apple, Qualcomm , Huawei , AMD, NVIDIA, Bitmain, etc. are all TSMC 7nm customers, especially Apple's new processor A12, which will be used for this year's new iPhone. Whether this will affect the release and shipment of new iPhones is also a question.
