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SK Hynix admits to DRAM defects, smacks down rumour it botched big batches
South Korean chip maker SK Hynix has admitted some of its DRAM components included defects, though it says accounts of the issue are overblown.
[...] The impact of the defects may be less substantial than the damage done to SK Hynix's reputation, as South Korean newswire Yonhap reports that rumours have circulated to the effect that 240,000 wafers of DRAM are defective. SK Hynix is thought to have the capacity to produce around 1.8 million wafers a month, around 80 per cent of which are dedicated to DRAM. The whispering therefore describes a serious situation at a time the world's hunger for silicon can't be satiated.
SK Hynix's missive to The Register continued: "The scale of the potential losses mentioned in the rumour is absolutely not true and exaggerated."
The company has therefore requested a police investigation into whoever is spreading this gossip.
SK Hynix Admits to Some DRAM Production Flaws, Calls the Cops
SK Hynix admitted that, while it was dealing with some faulty DRAMs, the damages did not impact 240,000 wafers. The company claimed that these rumors are meant to injure its reputation and called the local police to file libel and misinformation charges against its unknown assailant, thus spurring a police investigation into the rumors.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Friday June 11 2021, @07:56AM
Unless you have a monopoly, your reputation concerning the quality of your products matters a lot.
Think about it: Imagine you want to buy something, and there's one vendor who has the reputation of producing quality, and another that has the reputation of producing crap. Let's further assume that the offerings of both companies are otherwise equivalent. Now, from which vendor will you more likely buy?
Moreover, even if the products are actually of the same quality and you know it, if you use them as part of a product you are going to sell yourself, you may not be able to afford buying from the company with bad reputation, as that might affect your own reputation (“oh, they put crap in their products, thus their products must be crap”).
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.