Following rainfall across most of the nation on Tuesday night, the Water Resources Agency (WRA) yesterday said that the water shortage in central and southern areas had eased slightly and second-phase water rationing might not be necessary.
After the rainfall, the flow of the Kaoping River (高屏溪) in southern Taiwan, a key source of water for Tainan and Kaohsiung, increased from 14.3 cubic meters per second on Tuesday to 16.5 cubic meters per second yesterday, WRA Deputy Director-General Wang Yi-feng (王藝峰) said.
“Although the water situation in the south is more optimistic, it has not yet improved to the point at which we can relax,” Wang said.
However, the water supply in northern Taiwan is relatively stable, he said.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs, which supervises the WRA, is to hold its third water shortage strategy meeting of the year on April 28 as planned, he said.
Efforts to avoid the introduction of second-stage water rationing before the end of the month and third-stage water rationing before the end of May are ongoing, the official said.
First-stage water rationing has already been implemented in Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Kaohsiung, Chiayi, Tainan and the New Taipei City districts of Banqiao (板橋) and Sinjhuang (新莊).
In first-phase water rationing, water pressure in designated areas is lowered between 11pm and 6am, saving an estimated 3 to 5 percent of water consumption per night.
If second-stage restrictions are implemented, water fountains in affected areas would be turned off, streets would not be cleaned and supply to high-volume water users would be reduced to guarantee supply to the wider public.
Under third-stage restrictions, supply would be cut at certain times or in certain areas.
Gudeng Precision Industrial Co (家登精密), the sole extreme ultraviolet pod supplier to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (台積電), yesterday said it has trimmed its revenue growth target for this year as US tariffs are likely to depress customer demand and weigh on the whole supply chain. Gudeng’s remarks came after the US on Monday notified 14 countries, including Japan and South Korea, of new tariff rates that are set to take effect on Aug. 1. Taiwan is still negotiating for a rate lower than the 32 percent “reciprocal” tariffs announced by the US in April, which it later postponed to today. The
MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR: Revenue from AI servers made up more than 50 percent of Wistron’s total server revenue in the second quarter, the company said Wistron Corp (緯創) on Tuesday reported a 135.6 percent year-on-year surge in revenue for last month, driven by strong demand for artificial intelligence (AI) servers, with the momentum expected to extend into the third quarter. Revenue last month reached NT$209.18 billion (US$7.2 billion), a record high for June, bringing second-quarter revenue to NT$551.29 billion, a 129.47 percent annual increase, the company said. Revenue in the first half of the year totaled NT$897.77 billion, up 87.36 percent from a year earlier and also a record high for the period, it said. The company remains cautiously optimistic about AI server shipments in the third quarter,
ELECTRONICS: Strong growth in cloud services and smart consumer electronics offset computing declines, helping the company to maintain sales momentum, Hon Hai said Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) on Saturday announced that its sales for last month rose 10 percent year-on-year, driven by strong growth in cloud and networking products amid the ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) boom. The company, also known internationally as Foxconn Technology Group (富士康科技集團), reported consolidated sales of NT$540.24 billion (US$18.67 billion) for the month, the highest ever for the period, and a 10.09 percent increase from a year earlier, although it was down 12.26 percent from the previous month. Hon Hai, which is Apple Inc’s primary iPhone assembler and makes servers powered by Nvidia Corp’s AI accelerators, said its cloud
STABLE RESULTS: Despite June’s lower consolidated revenue, second-quarter sales still reached a record high, driven by demand for chips for AI applications Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) yesterday reported consolidated sales of NT$263.71 billion (US$9.02 billion) for last month, its second-lowest monthly result this year. The world’s largest contract chipmaker said in a statement that its revenue last month only fared better than the NT$260.01 billion posted in February. Last month’s figure rose 26.9 percent from a year earlier, but slumped 17.7 percent from May, the company said. However, second-quarter revenue reached NT$933.8 billion, a record high for a single quarter, company data showed. The figure represented growth of 11.26 percent from the first quarter and 38.6 percent from a year earlier. Previously, TSMC said that
RSS