Fire at Vanguard's Taoyuan wafer fab forces evacuation of 200 workers
A late-night fire broke out at chipmaker Vanguard International Semiconductor's third wafer plant in Taoyuan, Taiwan — bad for the company's near-term output, though nobody was hurt.
- The fire started in a rooftop machine room of a four-story building at the Luzhu district plant and burned a small area.
- More than 200 workers were evacuated during the night shift, and a headcount confirmed no injuries.
- Firefighters put the blaze out within an hour, sending dozens of crews and trucks to the site.
- The cause, the financial damage, and any hit to production are still unknown.
Outlook: Vanguard will need to assess equipment damage before saying whether chip output at the plant is disrupted.