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Taipei semi-fab back online after 13-hour outage; coolant loop identified as cause

Yield impact reported as "within seasonal variance." A 13-hour gap is unusual relative to a 96-hour median for similar incidents over the past five years.

TW. Yield impact reported as "within seasonal variance." A 13-hour gap is unusual relative to a 96-hour median for similar incidents over the past five years.
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A Taipei semiconductor fab is back online after a 13-hour outage attributed to its coolant loop. The provisional text defines a 13-hour threshold, establishes a new authority, and sets a 14-day clearance window. Three member states have confirmed the draft.

Trialogue is expected within the week. The regulation, if it survives, would enter force eighteen months after publication.

PAN's models place that probability — survival of the text in substantially its current form — at 51%, with the 13-hour threshold the most likely point of compromise. Effects on trade volume cannot be modelled until enforcement-protocol guidance is published.

The phrase "cross-border information drift" appears six times in the operative text and is undefined. Its appearance grants the new authority broad discretion.

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