Taiwan’s chip industry has invested heavily in making its facilities resilient to earthquakes. Disruption to production is unavoidable when a large earthquake strikes, but firms are usually able to return to close to full operating capacity within days if not hours. The key exception would be an earthquake that disrupted national power or water supply.
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