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January 23, 2025
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck southern Taiwan near Chiayi in the early hours of January 21, 2025. According to TrendForce, preliminary assessments indicate minimal damage to nearby wafer fabs.

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August 15, 2024
According to TrendForce's most recent data, the DRAM industry had a significant revenue increase in the second quarter of 2024, reaching USD 22.9 billion – a quarter-over-quarter surge of 24.8%.

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June 13, 2024
TrendForce reveals that the DRAM industry experienced a 5.1% revenue increase in 1Q24 compared to the previous quarter.

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May 24, 2024
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation has held a ceremony to mark the milestone, and expects to start mass production in the second half of this year.

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May 21, 2024
Following the earthquake in Taiwan in April, the industry expected an impact on chip and especially memory prices. After all, 65% of the world’s advanced nodes are being produced there, and when it comes to AI servers the figure is even higher.

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May 08, 2024
TrendForce’s latest forecasts reveal contract prices for DRAM in the second quarter are expected to increase by 13–18%, while NAND Flash contract prices have been adjusted to a 15–20%. Only eMMC/UFS will be seeing a smaller price increase of about 10%.

April 23, 2024
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake, measuring a weak 6 on Japan’s seismic intensity scale, struck off the west coast of Shikoku island on April 17.

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April 19, 2024
The recent earthquake in Taiwan caused an estimated loss of USD 92.44 million to the island's biggest chip firm, says Reuters.

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April 10, 2024
DRAM manufacturers are gradually resuming production following the earthquake that struck Taiwan on April 3, 2024. Despite some damages and the necessity for inspections or disposal of wafers among suppliers, TredForce reports that the impact on the total DRAM output for Q2 is estimated to be less than 1%

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April 04, 2024
Taiwan's wafer foundries and DRAM production remains unaffected following the earthquake that struck the island on April 3, 2024.

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April 03, 2024
In the wake of a 7.2-magnitude earthquake off the eastern coast of Taiwan at 7:58 AM on April 3rd, TrendForce immediately investigated the damage and operational status of various manufacturers.

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April 03, 2024
On Wednesday, Taiwan was hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake, the strongest to hit the island in at least 25 years, prompting a tsunami warning for southern Japan and the Philippines, which was later lifted.

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February 01, 2024
While TV shipments are at an all-time low, analysts at TrendForce see the potential for a slight increase in annual shipments, and price.

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January 03, 2024
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation has responded to the major earthquakes that occurred off the coast of the Noto Peninsula on January 1 by establishing an emergency task force at its headquarters in Kawasaki, Japan.

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January 02, 2024
Tower Semiconductor has provided an update following the recent earthquake in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan, the neighbouring Prefecture to where its two Japanese manufacturing facilities are located.

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January 02, 2024
TrendForce’s investigation into the impact of the recent strong earthquake in the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, reveals that several key semiconductor-related facilities are located within the affected area.

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November 03, 2023
Precision timing company SiTime Corporation has agreed to buy Aura Semiconductor's clock products and license all of its clock IP.

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September 25, 2023
Sfera Labs, a designer and manufacturer of advanced solutions for embedded systems and edge computing has signed a distribution agreement with DigiKey.

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December 28, 2022
2022 has been, just like the years before it, a special year. Supply chain issues, geopolitical tension and the resurgence of the pandemic has kept the industry on its toes.

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September 19, 2022
On the evening of September 17, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter scale occurred in Guanshan Township, Taitung. Yesterday (9/18) afternoon, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 on the Richter scale occurred in Chishang Township, Taitung.

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September 19, 2022
Updated: A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Taitung in the southeastern part of Taiwan on Sunday, local time, reports the Central Weather Bureau (CBW), the country's seismological center.

July 06, 2022
Due to heavy rain caused by Typhoon Aere in Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture, lightning hit a power line feeding into Renesas Group’s Kawashiri Factory on July 5, 5:43 a.m. JST.

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May 30, 2022
2022 has not even passed the halfway point and has already presented new – major – challenges for the electronics manufacturing supply chain. While the industry is doing all it can to alleviate current supply chain constraints – it still has to fight earthquakes, lockdowns and logistical headaches.

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Prevailing obstacles since the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 have manufacturers reassessing their supply chain strategies. The following major disruptions that occurred entering 2022 added to existing setbacks, or created new ones altogether:

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April 20, 2022
A seismic intensity 5 lower earthquake struck the northeastern Japan on April 19 at 8:16 a.m. local time, with Nakadori, Fukushima prefecture as the epicenter.

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March 23, 2022
Renesas says that it will longer than anticipate to bring back its Naka semiconductor fab to full speed following the earthquake that struck the coast of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan on March 16.

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March 23, 2022
Memory specialist Kioxia says it will will start constructing a new fabrication facility (Fab2) at its Kitakami Plant in Iwate Prefecture, Japan in order to expand the of production of its 3D Flash memory BiCS FLASH.

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March 23, 2022
Updated: A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck southeastern Taiwan on Wednesday morning. The quake was soon after followed by another 6.1 magnitude quake, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) reports.

March 21, 2022
Japanese semiconductor manufacturer Murata says that some of its production has resumed following the earthquake that struck off the coast of Miyagi and Fukushima Prefecture on March 16, 2022.

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March 18, 2022
Renesas has provided an update on the impact on its operations of the earthquake that hit the coast of Fukushima Prefecture.

March 17, 2022
March 16, 2022, at night local time Japan, an earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture. Electronic component manufacturer Murata says that some of the buildings and equipment of its operations have been damaged at that restoration work is continuing.

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March 17, 2022
A strong earthquake – with a seismic intensity of 6+ – struck the coast of Fukushima Prefecture and the surrounding areas on March 16.

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