Drought hits Taiwan and its fabs

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Looks like water supplies are critical for Taiwan's fabs due to a drought:
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/ch...-for-the-worst
https://financialpost.com/pmn/busine...-for-the-worst
https://www.livemint.com/industry/ma...146921371.html

This is going to start having effects on semi-conductors supplies worldwide. AMD and Apple are very dependent on the TSMC fabs in Taiwan!

This is on top of the freak weather in Texas,causing the shutdown of the Samsung 14NM fab and NXP Semiconductors and Infineon Semiconductors:
https://www.gsmarena.com/power_outag...news-47796.php

I wonder if this will affect supplies of the Samsung made GPUs in the GTX1050TI and GT1030??

[Kristian Hynes]

I may moan a lot every day about not having a new GPU but at least I have water... sometimes you forget how lucky you are