TSMC has confirmed that its JASM fab in Kumamoto, Japan, has resumed full operations after the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck on July 28. The company carried out structural inspections at the plant, and the results showed no major damage. Employees at the site were reported safe, and equipment calibration has been completed. The plant, called JASM, started commercial production in late 2024 and has a monthly output of about 55,000 12-inch wafers, which amounts to less than 3 percent of TSMC's total production capacity. This incident demonstrates the resilience of the semiconductor supply chain, an important factor for both crypto mining hardware manufacturers and AI chip producers. The update was reported by CryptoBriefing and shared by Techub News. TSMC's confirmation came after the earthquake hit the Kumamoto area on July 28 with a magnitude of 7.1. All production-related systems were recalibrated before the plant resumed full operations.

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A 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck Kumamoto on July 28 briefly halted production at Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM), TSMC’s chip venture in the prefecture, and paused construction at its second plant. The disruption revived a familiar question in the market: why would TSMC place such a large wafer-fab investment in a high-risk seismic zone? The source article argues the answer lies less in luck than in industrial arithmetic. Kumamoto sits inside a semiconductor cluster built over roughly six decades across Kyushu, with nearby suppliers, customers, water resources and lower power costs already in place. JASM’s two plants also carry more than $20 billion in combined equipment investment, while Japanese government subsidies for the first and second fabs total about ¥1.2 trillion, covering roughly 40% of spending. The article also points to precedent. Sony suffered ¥28 billion in losses in the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, yet stayed in Kikuyo and kept expanding. In that framing, the real comparison is not between risk and no risk, but between recovery costs after a quake and the far higher cost of relocating an entire supply-chain ecosystem.

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