The two people exercised on the bed for a while. They all felt a little tired, so they went to sleep in a biphasic embrace. At midnight, Fan Wuyi's cell phone started to ring.

Fan Wubing quickly pressed it off, and it didn't take long before Shen Ying's phone rang.

"Who, such a disturbing spring dream in the middle of the night--" Fan Wubing muttered and turned over and sat up, then looked at the caller number, but it was an unknown number, so he pulled Shenying and asked her to get up. Answer the phone.

"You have taken it, they are sleeping just right--" Shen Ying couldn't open her eyes.

Fan Wubing rubbed his eyes, then pressed the answer button, "Hey, where? What? Oh—"

After he answered the call, he lay down again, but Shen Ying was a little awake, and asked him, "Whose call, why don't you tell me?"

"Well, the headquarters was looking for me. Seeing that my cell phone was turned off, I called your cell phone." Fan Wuyao replied with his eyes closed.

"What the **** is it? They don't know what you are doing—" Shen Ying asked curiously.

Fan Wubing replied, "Just now, Taiwan had an earthquake."

"Oh, there was an earthquake in Taiwan--" Shen Ying repeated it unconsciously, and then sat up in surprise, "What, there was an earthquake in Taiwan?! What level?!"

"The earthquake has just passed. Although there is no news from Taiwan to confirm the magnitude of the earthquake, the monitoring of the 6th sector shows that it is an earthquake of at least magnitude seven." Fan Wubing replied.

"Then you really became a crow's mouth?!" Shen Ying looked at Fan Wuyao with surprise and said.

Fan Wubing had predicted at his wedding that there would be a major earthquake in Taiwan within a month. Many people treated it with a joke, although there are also good deeds in the media at the opening of the market, waiting for September to pass. If there is no major earthquake in Taiwan, you can laugh at Fan Wubing in a few manuscripts, but now it seems that not only can they not laugh at Fan Wubing, but it is estimated that they will wear a prophecy master’s head on Fan Wubing’s head. Halo.

Fan Wubing shrugged and turned on his cell phone. After a few minutes had passed, the phone rang again at the same time.

"What's wrong?" Fan Wubing said strangely, but he still answered the phone.

"Mr. Fan, I'm Wang Rongchang--" What came over the phone was Wang Rongchang, who served as the Deputy Secretary-General of the SEF and an important partner of Fan Investment Group. "Taiwan has an earthquake!"

"Oh, I just found out. I was about to ask where are you?" Fan Wuyao replied.

"You talked about the earthquake at the wedding, and you mentioned it to our uncle and nephew before, so I was touched in my heart, so I didn't go back to Taipei. I am now in Shanghai, but Shihan went to Taipei because of something, and now I am communicating. I don't know what happened to the interruption? My heart is really anxious!" Wang Rongchang said anxiously.

"Don’t worry, prince, the problem in Taipei is not expected to be serious, presumably Tainan will be a lot more serious." Fan Wuyi comforted, "During an earthquake, communication will definitely be temporarily interrupted. This is common sense. It will be fine after a while. ."

While talking, Shen Ying's phone rang again, but the headquarters reported to Fan Wuyi. Just now, there was a second earthquake in Taiwan, the magnitude of which was over six.

"Uh-" Fan Wubing scratched his head, Xindao originally only knew that the September 21st earthquake was quite severe, and the specific process was not clear. However, I did not expect that there were two earthquakes of magnitude 6 or higher in such a short period of time.

Soon, Fan Wubing and Shen Ying couldn’t sleep either. They turned on the TV and connected to the laptop’s satellite network. At the same time, they searched for news about the Taiwan earthquake. The news section of CCTV temporarily interrupted the news about Taiwan’s birthplace. News of the earthquake.

After dawn, the situation became clearer.

According to comprehensive media reports, on September 21, 1999, at 1:47:12:6, the magnitude was 7.3 poles. The epicenter was located on the fault in Jiji Town and Chelongpu, Nantou County, Taiwan. At 12.5 kilometers southwest of Sun Moon Lake, the focal depth was about 7 kilometers, and the main shock lasted for 102 seconds.

On the day of the earthquake, aftershocks were frequent. The most influential one was born at 2:16 in the morning less than an hour after the main shock. Its magnitude reached 6.8. This aftershock was the main cause of house damage.

Taiwan’s Taichung and Nantou counties were the hardest hit areas of the earthquake. Houses collapsed seriously. Although the situation of casualties has not been clearly established, it is obviously not rare. The earthquake also caused all the trains on the island of Taiwan to stop running, the nuclear power plants of the first and second nuclear plants were tripped and cut off, the high-voltage transmission line towers were destroyed, and the entire island of Taiwan was blacked out.

The earthquake also affected parts of Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, which are part of the motherland, causing varying degrees of impact. Cities such as Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and Ningde in Fujian felt strong earthquakes, and places like Guangzhou to Shantou in Guangdong, Wenzhou in Zhejiang, Nanchang and Jiujiang in Jiangxi all felt the earthquakes to varying degrees.

Some experts have analyzed and pointed out that the earthquake was caused by the dislocation of the Chelongpu fault. After the earthquake, an approximately 100-kilometer-long surface rupture zone was formed on the surface, and the maximum displacement between the upper and lower walls of the fault could be up to seven or eight meters.

Residents of Nantou who lived near the epicenter at the time recalled that not long before the earthquake, there was a loud rumbling sound on the earth, and the sky began to shake before the reaction could be made. Residents fled the house in a hurry, only to see the roadside buildings. One after another like dominoes fell down, the scene was eye-catching, it was amazing.

A resident living in Taipei City said that shortly before the incident, there was a short power failure for about half a minute and the power was restored immediately, but then there was a power outage, followed by a wave of shaking up and down, followed by continuous aftershocks, and the China Broadcasting Corporation was shaking. A fire in the Dongxing Building in Taipei was reported shortly afterwards.

At that time, the people in the north had not yet understood the disaster situation in the central part, but speculated that the earthquake was not trivial.

A designer living in the Central District of Taichung City said that when he was using a computer to play electric games that night, suddenly the lights in all the indoor rooms flashed, and the screen in front of him instantly turned to restart, just when he was not sure about the situation. , First there was a voice, and then the sky began to shake. He who lived on the top floor, swayed downstairs with his mother and brother, and hid with other family members in the biggest beam in the house. side.

The whole of Taiwan has already announced the cessation of work and classes. About two hours after the earthquake, the military received an order to be in place at 6 a.m., and the authorities used emergency reserves. Two million yuan was provided to each township and village chief for disaster relief.

Fan Wubing and Shen Ying were eating breakfast and watching TV news while sitting in their rooms. This huge earthquake that rocked the sky not only destroyed countless families, but also changed the landscape where the fault passed.

The Shigang Dam intercepts Dajia River and is one of the main sources of drinking water in Taichung County. It is 700 meters in length and was built 20 years ago. In this earthquake, the three-span spillway in the north part of the fault collapsed and the fault was in the south. The side arch is about ten meters, and the north side is about two meters, and the water storage function is completely lost. The bottom bed of the upstream reservoir is exposed to the surface.

The earthquake also caused countless houses to collapse. Some houses were squeezed like sardines, some were like piles of building blocks, some like dominoes, and some collapsed on the street. The Yanping gas station in Zhushan was shaken up and down, and the ground was shattered. While the local residents were worried about their homes, they were also worried that the gas station would become a time bomb.

At last it was around ten in the morning, Wang Rongchang contacted Wang Shihan, and at the same time received news that his family was safe and sound. This was a relief, but he soon contacted Fan Wuyin again. , "President Fan, I always think you are the kind of god-man of the unknown prophet."

"How do you say this——" Fan Wubing replied with some embarrassment.

"Earlier, everyone said that the price of memory chips will continue to fall. Only Mr. Fan, you have always insisted on expanding production and reducing sales as much as possible. The inevitable, then the memory chips we have saved can be sold at a good price." Wang Rongchang said to Fan Wuyao.

This Taiwan earthquake has had a certain impact on the global semiconductor market. The biggest impact is that it caused the world's memory chip dRam spot market prices to soar. On the dRam spot market in the United States today, the 64-megabit standard dRam has seen a high price of US$.65. This price is five times the $4 spot price of a 64-megabit dRam at the beginning of June this year, and is the highest dRam price in the past two years.

In the Zhongguancun electronics market price provided by the Huafeng.com forum, the price of a 64-megabit memory stick composed of 8 dRam chips quickly rose to 500 yuan, while the previous lowest price was only 70 yuan. .

At present, the 26 semiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan are currently all concentrated in the Hsinchu Industrial Park in northern Taiwan. The centralized production is convenient for solving the supply of water and electricity and the supply of industrial gases required for various semiconductors. In addition, it is also convenient to deal with problems encountered in production and facilitate the exchange of professionals. It is precisely because of the advantages of this scale effect that Taiwan's semiconductor industry has achieved significant growth in recent years and now ranks fourth in the world.

The Taiwan earthquake caused three major hazards to the semiconductor industry in the Hsinchu Industrial Park: power outages, misalignment of stepper lithography machines, and rupture of the quartz tubes used in silicon wafer processing.

As the Hsinchu Industrial Park occupies an important position in Taiwan’s economy, in the case of sacrificing part of the civilian power supply, rush repairs will be carried out immediately after the earthquake, and the restoration of all its power supply will be given priority. Various semiconductor manufacturers have also demonstrated their abilities and tried their best to restore power supply. On the day after the earthquake, many companies used their own electrical equipment, and the Hsinchu Park had restored a quarter of the electricity supply. Taiwan’s largest semiconductor manufacturer, TSMC, is equipped with emergency power supplies. Less than fifteen minutes after the earthquake, under the auspices of senior managers, it began a 24-hour continuous emergency repair. Manufacturers such as UMC, Winbond and Macronix have installed large-capacity uninterrupted power supplies. Can avoid the losses suffered by power outages. The only one in the Hsinchu Park that was not affected by the power outage was Powerchip, which has a cogeneration contract with Xinyu.

Among the semiconductor production equipment, the most precise is the stepper lithography machine.

After the earthquake, its position was misaligned and needed to be readjusted urgently. Nikon, a Japanese company that produces lithography machines, immediately dispatched more than 60 technicians to Taipei and quickly joined the repair teams of various factories in Hsinchu. It's just that the amount of work is too large. After half a month of continuous struggle, the rest of the lithography machines in the park could not be debugged. For this reason, Nikon delayed the delivery schedule of the new order lithography machines in the next two months.

During the earthquake, some of the quartz tubes in the processing furnaces of manufacturers such as Lianhua Electronics ruptured. Taiwan Yuanyi Quartz Co., Ltd., which produces quartz tubes, has received special attention in terms of power supply, and its operating rate has increased rapidly from before the earthquake. With the assistance of Japan's Toshiba and Fujitsu, they are rushing to replace the broken quartz tube.

As the Hsinchu Industrial Park is relatively stable in terms of geological structure and is far from the earthquake source area in central Taiwan, the major earthquake will cause less damage to the plants and production equipment in the park. TSMC's plant and equipment were basically undamaged. The quartz tube of the treatment furnace in some workshops of the UMC Group broke.

The most affected is Taiwan's third-ranked semiconductor manufacturer Winbond Electronics Company. Except for the broken quartz tube, some of its water supply and gas pipelines leaked.

According to the news announced by TSMC, due to the tight repairs, full production capacity can be restored in about a week after the earthquake, and it will not have much impact on production capacity. It is expected that by the beginning of October, manufacturers such as Lianhua Electronics Group will also resume normal production.

In short, ~lightnovelpub.net~ officially claims that all semiconductor manufacturers can restore their full production capacity in about two weeks, and it will not have a major impact on the market.

However, after the Taiwan earthquake, the media and the industry are expected to have a greater impact on this earthquake. In addition, driven by profits, global semiconductor prices have increased significantly. Semiconductor manufacturers that have recovered from the impact of the earthquake are working hard to work overtime. Production.

Wang Rongchang suggested to Fan Wuyao, “At present, the spot market has immediately seen a surge. Our inventory shipment price has doubled five times, and the price of memory in the domestic electronic market is still rising sharply. It is very likely that the market price will pass. Thousand yuan! Are we in stock now, or do we try our best to ship?"

Fan Wubing had already eaten with Shen Ying at this time. After hearing what Wang Rongchang said, he was not too surprised. After thinking about it for a while, he said, "In one month, you can return to normal, but the market impact will be delayed. There are many. You can wait for a week or so to ship in large quantities. The price of memory is always more than 1,000 yuan, and it is likely to be more than 1,500 yuan. You can handle it. However, there is one point. I need to emphasize that half of the extra profit this time, I plan to use it for disaster relief in Taiwan, shouldn't you disagree?"

"Agree, why not agree?!" Wang Rongchang shouted immediately.