Renesas factory experienced worst voltage drop in decade – shutting down production lines
A factory belonging to Japanese semiconductor manufacturer Renesas is back online after a lightning strike forced it to shut down for a week.
The facility was struck during Typhoon Aere in the early morning of July 5. The strike hit a power line feeding the factory, which caused an instant voltage drop, stopped production, and partially destroyed products already on the Kawashiri plant production line. The company had contingency measures in place, including uninterruptible power supplies , but the drop was so bad that 90 percent of production equipment had to be temporarily suspended anyway. RenesasOn Monday, July 11, the company
it had again reached full production. Overall the plant scrapped one week's worth of chips after initially predicting they would lose two weeks.
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