A volunteer takes vegetable packages from a staff member at Suzhou Industrial Park in Suzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Feb. 20, 2022.Photo:Xinhua Electronics manufacturers in Suzhou, East China’s Jiangsu Province, are seeing a limited impact on their business operations at the moment from the COVID-19 flare-ups, though disruptions in logistics and delayed shipments have occurred,…
King Yuan Electronics, a top 10 outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) contractor in the world, announced Friday that it is halting production for two days after several employees were tested positive for COVID-19. A two-day shutdown shouldn’t devastate the market, but amid an ongoing chip shortage — largely stemming from chip packaging — the news is…
Construction of Intel’s 7nm-capable fab near the town of Leixlip in County Kildare, Ireland, was recently hit by a COVID-19 outbreak as approximately 70 out of 5,000 workers were infected. Intel and the Ireland’s Department of Health are monitoring the situation and for now have no plans to halt the development. The Irish publication RTE…
