On Saturday, some factories of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the only maker of iPhone's main processor, was closed after the virus was attacked. The company's ongoing efforts to create chips for the iPhone have been the most serious disruptions.
Although the problem has been included and some factories have been resumed, the most damaged factories will not be restored until at least Sunday.
TSMC said that several fraudulent devices of the attack were infected.Up to now, it is not clear that TSMC targets, which could be the largest composer manufacturer of chips for giants like Apple and Qualcomm. Notably, the company has said that the virus was not launched by a hacker, indicating a possible inner work.
TSMC for the first time brought down by this attack. "TSMC has been infected by viruses earlier, but this is the first time a virus attack has affected our production line," Chief Financial Officer Lora Ho told Bloomberg News over by phone. However, he did not publish the benefits of the production of iPhone chips.
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How does the attack affect TSMC and Apple?
Lora Ho's silence with information about the impact of the attack on the company's revenues is unclear how it will strongly impact the vague days.The impact of this attack is also not clear for Apple, which exceeded the $ 1 trillion market cap a few days ago. Markedly, this is basically driven by iPhone sales.
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