The opening paragraph feels a bit pearl clutching to me.
> the company had to scrap thousands of wafers that were in production for clients at the site which include Apple, Nvidia, and AMD.
Eh. So what? I am sure scrap thousands of wafers for all kinds of other reasons. I would be better to know the cost per hour of a total plant shutdown. (Of course, I'm sure the author doesn't have this information.)
> After all, the TSMC logo features failing parts!