Key extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) equipment at TSMC is “safe and sound,” reports DigiTimes, with production back up to 70 or 80% capacity on the same day as the massive April 3 earthquake. However, the quakes didn’t leave the production facilities unscathed. According to the new report, the seismic interruption and the damage incurred will cost TSMC approximately $62 million. While the EUV machines are undamaged, factory beams, columns, walls, and pipelines were damaged during the quake(s) according to unnamed DigiTimes sources. Without official confirmation we must take the details with a pinch of salt.

TSMC reportedly bounced back very quickly after a series of violent earthquakes and aftershocks in Taiwan on Wednesday morning. Since that time we have been trying to ascertain the scale of the damage done to the island’s vital semiconductor industry. Companies like TSMC are notoriously secretive regarding their internal goings-on, so we have only caught glimpses from a handful of insiders willing to spill the beans.