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posted by janrinok on Monday March 19 2018, @03:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the samsung-unplugged dept.

A half-hour power outage at Samsung’s fab near Pyeongtaek, South Korea, disrupted production and damaged tens of thousands of processed wafers. Media reports claim that the outage destroyed as much as 3.5% of the global NAND supply for March, which may have an effect on flash memory pricing in the coming weeks.

The outage happened on March 9 and lasted for about 30 minutes, according to a news story from Taiwain-based TechNews that cites further South Korean reports. The report claims that the outage damaged 50,000 to 60,000 of wafers with V-NAND flash memory, which represent 11% of Samsung’s monthly output. The report further estimates that the said amount equates to approximately 3.5% of global NAND output, but does not elaborate whether it means wafer output or bit output.

Samsung uses its fab near Pyeongtaek to produce 64-layer V-NAND chips used for various applications. The fab is among the largest flash production facilities in the world and therefore any disruption there has an effect on the global output of non-volatile memory. Meanwhile, since production lines have not been damaged and the fab is back online, the significance of such an effect is limited.

Source: TechNews


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  • (Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday March 19 2018, @04:26PM

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Monday March 19 2018, @04:26PM (#654972)

    Good point.

    I really meant total war as in WWIII, which is the imagined scenario whereby significant technologies become unavailable. Regional wars I think can be managed (oh dear Korea went SNAFU, well we can source stuff from Japan instead with small cost increase), although I guess there is some risk even there.

    E.g. Say Russia moves on Eastern Europe and China moves on Korea and Japan; can we still build computers?

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