Production Line All Line Stop! The Three Major Bases Of Tsc Were Exposed To The Invasion Of The Extortion Virus

Taiwan semiconductor giant TSMC suddenly encountered a large-scale virus attack.

According to the Taiwan China Electronics newspaper, near midnight on August 3rd, TSI was located at the 12 inch wafer factory and operating headquarters of the Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan, Taiwan, and suddenly the news of a computer virus invasion and the full suspension of the production line. In a few hours, tji was located at the Fab 15 plant in Taichung Science Park and the Fab 14 factory in Tainan Science Park, which was also the same news, which represents the three important production bases in North, middle and south of Taiwan, and the production line was suspended as a result of the virus invasion.

Later, TSI also confirmed the matter. TSMC said that in the evening of August 3rd, some of the production equipment was infected by the virus, not as a hacker attack on the external transmission, the company had controlled the virus infection range, and found a solution, the affected production equipment was gradually resuming production. The degree of infection varies from factory to factory. Some plants have returned to normal within a short period of time, while others are expected to return to normal within a day.

TSMC's chip foundry business has a global market share of 56%. In addition to being the only supplier of apple iPhone's core processor chips, TSI has 465 customers around the world, including almost all of the world's major chip designers. Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, NVIDIA, Bo Tong, NJI Pu, HUAWEI chip Department Hass and the co generation company all rely on the manufacturing technology of the front edge of TCV to create advanced chips.

A source to the surging news reporters that the attack platform equipment is the blackmail virus Wannacry, the specific phenomenon is the computer blue screen, lock all kinds of documents, databases.

In May last year, the extortion virus was rampant around the world, and hundreds of countries around the world were attacked by the extortion virus. The virus allegedly exploited the "eternal blue" hacker tool stolen by the hacker group "shadow brokers" from the NSA's cyber arsenal.

Previous sources said that the past caused by a virus attack on the production line has also been over, but are small, like TSMC three 12 inches of production line, including production equipment and detection equipment have not been in the situation.

However, generally speaking, the equipment on the production line does not link to the Internet, and it is not clear how TSMC was attacked.
Many industry insiders believe that such a production shutdown event will cause great losses to the company, the production equipment on the wafer into a large probability of scrap.

As for the virus attack, there is no clear information about which customers are OEM on the TSMC production line. However, the third quarter of each year is the peak season for TSMC's big customers, especially for Smartphone big customers like Apple. Therefore, the production line of TSMC will affect the stocking effect of customers in the following season, and we need to continue to observe.

The virus attacks test the new team of TSMC. In June this year, Zhang Zhongmou, chairman of Taiwan semiconductor godfather, was officially retired. The former anti-hacker work of TSMC was checked by Zuo Dachuan, senior vice-president and chief information officer of TSMC, but he retired in March this year.

Industry insiders disclosed that by the impact of the virus invasion of TSMC, another integrated circuit generation factory, SMIC International is also strictly checking the virus.