Samsung is having trouble getting the Austin, Texas plant up and running

A few weeks ago the Samsung plant in Texas had to shut down due to a lack of electrical power. The problem was the anomalous wave of extreme cold that occurred in that state. Well, it seems that the restart of the plant located in Austin, Texas, is not going as expected. They would be finding some important problems, which would generate a great shortage of chips.

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Samsung has trouble starting its chip plant in Austin, Texas

The cold snap that swept through Texas has created an enormous amount of problems. Many power plants suffered outages due to increased demand. Autin Energy decided to send electricity to users and stop supplying semiconductor manufacturers, something more than logical.

The problem is that shutting down a semiconductor manufacturing plant is very easy. The difficulty is in the ignition, since the machines must first be cleaned and then turned on in a specific order and hope that nothing fails.

Chipmakers now have the power, water and gas they need to operate, but they need time to restart tools and clean factories

Edward Latson, CEO of the Austin Regional Manufacturers Association

It seems that Samsung has problems reactive S2 plants. This plant manufactures chips based on the 14LPP and 11LPP nodes. The affected plant is in charge of manufacturing controllers for SSD, chips for automotive companies like Tesla and Renesas or telecommunications chips for Qualcomm.

I've never seen a factory go live after a smooth outage.

For example, if a water molecule got into the tools, it could completely stop production. A factory uses very particular gases, liquids and matter that are difficult to store and put back after they have been removed from warehouse

 Patrick Moorhead, director of analytics firm Moor Insights and Strategy, to Austin American Statesman

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Source: TH