TECH NEWS – Workers at TSMC’s Kaohsiung site uncovered another unexploded World War II bomb during construction of the company’s new factories.

An 80-year-old bomb was discovered at the construction site of TSMC’s new chip plants in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The company is currently building five advanced factories in the area, which will manufacture chips using 2-nanometer and even smaller technologies. The bomb, believed to have been dropped by the U.S. military, has since been removed. The Kaohsiung facility is a crucial part of TSMC’s portfolio, as it will produce 2-nanometer chips. The site includes five plants, with the first, P1, expected to begin mass production by year’s end. Equipment installation at P1 began at the end of last year.

TSMC is also constructing four additional plants at the site — P2, P3, P4, and P5. P2 is also expected to manufacture 2-nanometer chips, while the others will produce either 2-nanometer or even more advanced products, such as those built with TSMC’s 1.4A chip technology. According to Taiwanese media, this marks the third unexploded bomb found at the Kaohsiung site. The area was once home to an oil refinery that was a target for U.S. bombings during World War II, when the island was under Japanese control.

According to Focus Taiwan, the bomb was discovered at 11:30 a.m. local time on Saturday. The Taiwanese military was immediately notified and removed the bomb within an hour. This follows previous discoveries in August and November of last year, when construction workers found aerial bombs weighing 453 and 226 kilograms, respectively. Like those, the latest find was heavily rusted, making it impossible to identify its composition or serial number.

The Taiwanese military confirmed that the bomb posed no danger to the workers. It was transported to a warehouse and will be neutralized according to standard procedures.

Source: WCCFTech