TSMC's San-yuan wafer plant attacked by virus According to relevant sources, yesterday evening, TSMC Fab 12 Factory's internal computer system was first infected with the virus, and through the intranet spread to other regions.
It is reported that the TSMC Fab 12 plant is located at the headquarters of the Xinzhu 12-inch wafer factory, but also the research and development headquarters of enterprise groups, the main production and manufacture of niche products.
When the Fab 12 plant was attacked by the virus, the Fab 15 and Fab 14 in South Dakota were also reported to have the same incident. It is understood that TSMC Fab 15 plant located in the Taizhong Science Park (Zhongke), is currently 28 nm and 7 nm production base;
TSMC Fab 14 Plant located in the Tainan Science Park (Nanco), is currently the main production base of 16 nm process, orders and production capacity are very full.
It is noteworthy that TSMC this affected part mainly concentrates in 7 nanometer process, contains the bamboo branch, the branch plant and the South Branch factory all spreads the disaster, the affected capacity is about 60,000 pieces above, and besides 7 nanometer, also has some 12, 16 nanometer process also to be affected.
TSMC launches official Statement response The third quarter of each year is the peak season for TSMC customers, especially the A12 series of processors on the upcoming Apple iphone.
In addition, the second half of TSMC will also give Huawei Kirin, Qualcomm, AMD, Nvidia and other 10 customers to produce 7nm chips. I do not know the TSMC three wafer plant synchronization was virus attack, will it affect shipments? In this regard, the TSMC legal person believes that the actual extent of the impact is relatively limited, does not affect the overall operating performance.
The supply chain manufacturers point out that the shutdown can be expected after a few hours after the production of the machine, the impact should not be too big.
Of course, there is also an urgent meeting within TSMC, and details remain to be understood. In addition, in response to the virus attack, TSMC today (August 4) also issued a formal statement.
TSMC's official statement is as follows:
The scope of the virus infection is now under control and the affected units are gradually resuming production and are expected to return to normal within one day.
TSMC noted that some of the machines were infected on the evening of August 3, but were not exposed to hacking attacks, were currently in control of the virus infection and found a solution, the affected machine is gradually resuming production.
The extent of the virus infection varies from factory to plant, and TSMC says some plants have returned to normal within a short period of time, and the remaining plants are expected to return to normal within a day.
Not a hacker attack?
It is worth mentioning that Taiwan media quoted the Taiwanese industry, said the production line of the TSMC's temporary shutdown is due to the production line of the Japanese commercial village field, Tai Fuk Supply Crane System (AMHS, automatic material delivery system) was hacked.
TSMC responded by saying that it was not a hacking attack, but that some of the stations were infected with the virus. In fact, in the past there has been an analysis of the industry, semiconductor manufacturers are often targeted by hackers, in order to steal key technology and confidentiality, and sometimes through the network to attack semiconductor manufacturers up to thousands of times a day.
In addition, such as Alibaba Group founder Ma Yun also said that every day to deal with the global hacker attacks. This March, the original TSMC information Technology Senior VP and Information Zoda formally retired, before he was responsible for TSMC's corporate hacker work.
And his retirement, a few days ago, TSMC all over Taiwan North, in the south three of the wafer factory are synchronized virus attacks, very accident in the industry. In the past Zoda to TSMC's anti-hacker work, once said, corporate hackers must do well before the invasion of the company, as well as to enter the company after the various precautions, TSMC's anti-hacker action is to take a layer of protection (Defense in Depth), in addition to the various software blocking malicious attack program
In case there is a loophole in the protection, hackers inside the company will allow them to only be in a certain area, and can not do any action, but some hackers may lurk for up to more than 400 days, and TSMC developed a software, as long as the hackers have the action, they quickly caught. Three-ground wafer plant virus Attack! TSMC responds: All will be back to normal in one day