Unplanned power outage at Taiwanese plant interrupts semiconductor production across the region [TechSpot]

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The Xingda plant, run by Taipower, supplies an estimated one-seventh of Taiwan’s total electrical output. The outage lasted 90 minutes and affected an estimated five million households. The cause of the incident was attributed to a failure in the station’s turbine room, which triggered an emergency shutdown to avoid further…