The two of them exercised in bed for a while and felt a little tired, so they hugged each other and fell asleep. In the middle of the night, Fan Wubing's cell phone started to ring.

Fan Wubing pressed it off casually, and not long after, Shen Ying's cell phone rang.

"Who is this disturbing dream in the middle of the night—" Fan Wubing muttered and turned over and sat up. Then he looked at the number of the phone number, but he didn't know one, so he pulled Shen Ying and asked her to get up to answer the phone.

"You've picked it up, they're sleeping just right-" Shen Ying couldn't even open her eyes.

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

After answering the phone, he lay down again. Shen Ying was a little awake and asked him, "Whose phone number, why don't you tell me?"

"Well, the headquarters is looking for me. When I saw that my phone was turned off, I called your phone." Fan Wubing replied with his eyes closed.

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

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

"Oh, Taiwan's earthquake-" Shen Ying repeated unconsciously, then sat up in surprise, "What, Taiwan's earthquake?! What's the level?!"

"It just passed. Although there is no news from Taiwan that confirms the magnitude, monitoring from the six major aspects shows that it is at least an earthquake of magnitude 7 or above." Fan Wubing replied.

"Then aren't you really a crow's mouth?" Shen Ying looked at Fan Wubing in surprise and said.

Previously, Fan Wubing predicted that there would be a major earthquake in Taiwan within the month, and many people treated it with a joke. Although some good-fighters from the media were opening, waiting for September to pass. If there were no major earthquakes in Taiwan, there would be a few more articles to mock Fan Wubing. But now it seems that not only can they not laugh at Fan Wubing, they probably have to put a halo of prophecy on Fan Wubing's head.

Fan Wubing shrugged and turned on his cell phone. After a few minutes, the phone rang again.

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

"Mr. Fan, I am Wang Rongchang--" What came from the phone was Wang Rongchang, who served as the deputy secretary-general of the Straits Foundation, and an important partner of Fan's Investment Group. "The Taiwan earthquake!"

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

"You talked about the earthquake at the wedding and mentioned it to our uncle and nephew before, so I was moved and I didn't go back to Taipei. I am now in Shanghai. However, Shihan went to Taipei because of something, and the communication is interrupted. I don't know what's going on? I'm really anxious!" Wang Rongchang said anxiously.

"Don't worry, prince, don't worry. Taipei's problem is probably not big. I guess Tainan will be much more serious." Fan Wubing comforted, "In the event of an earthquake, communication will definitely be temporarily interrupted. This is common sense, and it will be fine in about a while."

While he was talking, Shen Ying's phone rang again, but the headquarters reported to Fan Wubing. Just now, there was a second earthquake in Taiwan, and the magnitude exceeded magnitude 6.

"Uh--" Fan Wubing scratched his head, thinking that he only knew that the 921 earthquake was quite powerful, but the specific process was not clear. However, he did not expect that two earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above would occur in such a short time.

Soon, Fan Wubing and Shen Ying couldn't sleep anymore. They turned on the TV and connected to the satellite network of their laptops. At the same time, they searched for news about the earthquake in Taiwan. They saw that CCTV's news column temporarily interspersed the news about the earthquake in Taiwan.

After dawn, the situation became clearer.

According to comprehensive media reports, at 1:47:12:6 on September 21, 1999, the magnitude was 7:3 poles. The epicenter was located on Jiji Town, Nantou County, Taiwan, on the Chelangpu fault, about 12:5 kilometers southwest of Sun Moon Lake, with a depth of about 7 kilometers and the main shock lasted 102 seconds.

On the day of the major earthquake, aftershocks were frequent. The biggest impact was that it was less than an hour after the main earthquake at 2:16 am, with a magnitude of 6:8. This aftershock was the main cause of house damage.

Taichung and Nantou counties in Taiwan are severely affected by the earthquake. House collapses are serious and the casualties have not been clearly implemented, but it is obviously not very rare. The earthquake also caused all trains on Taiwan's island to stop driving, nuclear one and nuclear two factories tripped and powered off, high-voltage transmission line towers were damaged, and power outages across Taiwan.

This earthquake also affected some areas of Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiangxi in the motherland, and had different degrees of impact. The tremors in Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Ningde and other cities in Fujian were strong, with Guangzhou to Shantou in Guangdong, Wenzhou in Zhejiang, Nanchang, Jiujiang in Jiangxi and other places all had different degrees of vibration.

Some experts have analyzed that earthquakes are caused by the staggered movement of the Chelangpu fault. After the earthquake, the surface of the surface is about 100 kilometers long, and the maximum movement between the upper and lower plates of the fault can reach seven or eight meters.

The residents of Nantou who lived near the epicenter at that time recalled that shortly before the earthquake, there was a loud rumbling sound on the ground. Before he could react, the sky began to shake the earth. The residents fled out of their houses in a hurry and saw buildings on the side of the road. One after another like dominoes, the scene was eye-catching, and it was really amazing.

A resident living in Taipei City said that shortly before, the power was temporarily off for about half a minute and the power was resumed immediately, but the power was outage, followed by a wave of up and down, followed by a constant aftershock. Shortly after the earthquake, China Broadcasting Corporation reported that a fire broke out in the Dongxing Building in Taipei.

At that time, the people in the north had not yet understood the disaster in the central region, but speculated that the earthquake was extraordinary.

A designer living in Zhong District, Taichung said that he was using a computer to make an electric power that night, and suddenly all the lights in the indoor room flashed, and the screen in front of him instantly turned on. Just when he was not sure about the situation, a sound first came, and then it started to shake the sky and the earth. He lived on the top floor, and quickly rushed downstairs with his mother and brother, hiding downstairs with his other family members, beside the largest beam and pillar at home.

Taiwan has announced that it will stop working and classes. About two hours after the earthquake, the military received an order and took the seat at 6 a.m. The authorities used emergency reserves to provide 2 million yuan each for disaster relief.

Fan Wubing and Shen Ying were having breakfast while sitting in the room to watch TV news. This huge earthquake that shook the sky not only destroyed countless families, but also changed the landform where the fault passes.

Shigang Dam intercepts Dama, one of the main drinking water sources in Taichung County, is 700 meters long and was built twenty years ago. During this earthquake, the three-span flood discharge channel in the northern section was broken and collapsed. The fault was arched about ten meters on the south side and about two meters on the north side, and the water storage function was completely lost. The bottom bed of the upstream reservoir exposed the surface.

The earthquake also caused countless houses to collapse. Some were pushed like sardines and were overwhelmed with unbearable sight, some were like stacks of building blocks, some were like dominoes, and some collapsed on the street. The Yanping Gas Station in Zhushan was shaken and tilted, and the ground was broken. Local residents were worried about their homes and were worried that the gas station would become a time bomb.

Finally, at around 10 o'clock in the morning, Wang Rongchang contacted Wang Shihan and also received news that everyone in his family was safe and sound. Only then did he feel relieved, but he soon contacted Fan Wubing again, "Mr. Fan, I always feel that you are the kind of god who predicted the future."

"How did you say this--" Fan Wubing replied embarrassedly.

"Earlier, everyone said that the price of memory chips would continue to decline. Only Mr. Fan, you always insist on expanding production and reducing sales and trying to reserve as much as possible. Now it seems that due to the serious impact of memory chip factories on the island, it is inevitable that the price of memory chips will rise sharply. Then the memory chips we have saved can be sold at a good price." Wang Rongchang said to Fan Wubing.

This major earthquake in Taiwan has had a certain impact on the global semiconductor market. The biggest impact is that it has caused the world's memory chip Dram spot market to soar. Today, the US Dram spot market has a high price of 2O.65 USD based on the 64-megabit standard Dram. This price is 5 times the spot price of 64-megabit Dram each at the beginning of June this year, and the highest price of Dram in the past two years.

Among the Zhongguancun electronics market prices provided in the Huafeng.com forum, the price of a 64-megabit memory stick composed of 8 Dram chips quickly rose to 500 yuan, while the lowest price before was only 70 yuan.

Currently, all 26 semiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan are 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 for dealing with problems encountered in production and facilitating the exchange of professional talents. It is precisely because of the advantages of this scale effect that Taiwan's semiconductor industry has achieved great success in recent years and is now ranked fourth in the world.

This major earthquake in Taiwan has caused three major harms to the semiconductor industry in Hsinchu Industrial Park: power outage, stepper lithography machine misalignment and rupture of quartz tubes used in silicon wafer processing.

Since Hsinchu Industrial Park occupies an important position in Taiwan's economy, emergency repairs will be carried out immediately after the earthquake, and all power supply will be restored first. Each semiconductor manufacturer also showed its capabilities and tried its best to restore power supply. On the day after the earthquake, many companies used their own power equipment, and Hsinchu Park had restored one-quarter of the power supply. Taiwan's largest semiconductor manufacturer, TSMC, has emergency power supply. Less than fifteen minutes after the earthquake, 24-hour continuous emergency repairs started under the auspices of senior managers. Manufacturers such as Lianhua Electronics, Huabang and Wanghong have installed large-capacity non-blocking power supplies, which can avoid the losses caused by power outages. The only one in the Hsinchu Park that has not been affected by the earthquake power outage is Lijing Company, which has a combined heat and power supply contract with Xinyu Company.

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

After the earthquake, its position was staggered and urgently needed to be adjusted. Nikon, a Japanese company that produces lithography machines, immediately sent more than 60 technicians to Taipei and quickly joined the emergency repair team of various factories in Hsinchu. However, the project volume was too large and there was no need to debug after half a month of continuous struggle. Nikon company delayed the delivery progress of the newly ordered lithography machines in the next two months.

During the earthquake, some quartz pipes in the treatment furnaces of manufacturers such as Lianhua Electronics broke down. Taiwan Yuanyi Quartz Company, which produces quartz pipes, received special attention in power supply, and its operating rate increased from 5o before the earthquake to 7o. With the assistance of Japan Toshiba Company and Fujitsu Company, it is speeding up to replace the damaged quartz pipes.

Since the Hsinchu Industrial Park is relatively stable in geological structure and is far away from the estuary area in central Taiwan, the major earthquake causes less harm to the factory buildings and production equipment in the park. TSMC's factory buildings and equipment are basically not damaged. The quartz pipes in the treatment furnaces in some workshops of Lianhua Electronics Group have broken.

The most affected is Huabang Electronics, a semiconductor manufacturer in Taiwan, which is ranked third in the third place. In addition to the quartz pipe rupture, some of its water and gas supply pipelines have leaks.

According to TSMC's announcement, due to tight emergency repairs, all production capacity can be restored about a week after the earthquake, and will not have much impact on the production capacity. It is expected that by early October, manufacturers such as Lianhua Electronics Group will also resume normal production.

In short, the official claims that all semiconductor manufacturers can restore all production capacity in about two weeks and will not have much impact on the market.

However, after the Taiwan earthquake, the media and the industry expect the impact of this earthquake to be greater. In addition, driven by interests, global semiconductor prices have risen significantly. All semiconductor manufacturers recovering from the impact of the earthquake have been working overtime.

Wang Rongchang advised Fan Wubing, "At present, the spot market has immediately surged. Our inventory shipment price has increased five times, and the memory price in the domestic electronics market is still soaring. It is very likely that the market price will exceed 1,000 yuan! Are we in stock now, or do our best to ship it?"

Fan Wubing had already eaten with Shen Ying at this time. After hearing Wang Rongchang's words, he was not surprised. He thought for a while and said, "It can be normal in one month, but the market impact will be much delayed. You can wait for about a week before shipping in large quantities. The memory price is always over 1,000 yuan, and it is likely to exceed 1,500 yuan. You can go and do it. However, there is one thing I need to emphasize, I plan to take out half of the extra profit this time to provide disaster relief. You shouldn't disagree, right?"
Chapter completed!