Hacker News Reader

Comment by gtt | Hacker News Reader

Is it going to affect hardware prices?

You are downvoted, but after concern for the affected twianeese, this was also my first thought. And most likely some impact is inevitable. Signifigant or not, to our admittedly biased, career/hobby remains to be determined.

> You are downvoted, but after concern for the affected twianeese, this was also my first thought.

This is relevant. Prices soared across the industry after the 1999 quake. I believe prices rose several hundred dollars for individual PCs for most / all manufacturers.

https://www.wired.com/1999/09/pc-prices-ram-upward/

I guess, people are already running to short TSMC, Qualcomm and Apple

I think the Taiwanese companies we can think of (huge ODMs like Quanta and Foxconn) do almost all of their manufacturing in China, not Taiwan.

Edit: oops, not Samsung of course.

How is Samsung Taiwanese?

Samsung is Korean

TSMC is based in Taiwan... If that's not 'huge', I'm not sure what is.

Yeah, most of the advanced chip fabs are still located in Taiwan for strategic/political reasons

TSMC did suffer complete loss of like 60% of production batches on few occasions in the past and recovered after them just fine. And so did companies in their supply chain. Actually, it is even more painful say for wafer suppliers: a few seconds electricity loss at a silicon smelter or growth vessel means 1 month revenue is lost.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jwebb/2016/02/29/the-taiwanese-...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com