A chip fabricator that produces some of the processors used in the iPhone 6s has warned its production capacity has been impacted by a recent earthquake by a larger margin than it had first believed. TSMC has advised that its initial estimates of a 1 percent loss of first quarter wafer shipments from the February 6 magnitude-6.4 earthquake in Taiwan may have been optimistic, due to a higher than anticipated amount of damage to some of its facilities.
