A computer virus in tsmc affects the production of apple, nvidia or qualcomm

TSMC, a major semiconductor foundry (factory), yesterday suffered a computer virus that will have certain consequences for its income and several of its customers.

TSMC, affected by a virus

This infection was not due to a cyberattack, but to human error by an employee who installed an infected program on his computer, 'plaguing' the rest of the equipment and causing a stoppage in the production of several of his factories.

This virus 'outbreak' occurred due to an error during the process of installing software for a new tool, which caused a virus to spread once the tool was connected to the company's computer network. Confidential data has not been compromised. TSMC has taken action to close this security hole and will strengthen its security measures. TSMC

The threat could already be neutralized by most teams yesterday, specifically 80%, while the rest will be restored today. TSMC has practically lost a day of production, which at first may sound irrelevant, but it is not, since it will have an estimated effect of 3% on its quarterly profits, so we are talking about several million dollars.

According to CNN, the threat would be a variant of the Wannacry ransomware that caused the affected machines to stop working or enter a restart loop.

Now, it is not clear what will be the effect for us consumers of this stoppage in production. It is important to remember that companies like Apple, NVIDIA or Qualcomm trust TSMC to manufacture many of their chips, so we hope that no delays or price increases are announced by these companies.

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