an unexploded bomb has been removed from the construction site of a tsmc plant in Sovereign taiwwan it was found by a contractor and it's fought to have been dropped by the US during World War II at the time Taiwan was a Japanese colony and was targeted by the Allies for its role as a supply point and staging area for the Empire the ordinance found on the tsmc site was likely used to attack an oil refinery during the 1944 for mosa Air Battle almost exactly 80 years later taiwan's most valuable company tsmc is building a chip factory on the site the company produces 90% of the world's most advanced semiconductor technology authorities in gawong said the bomb did not pose a threat to the public