Power outage causes wafers from Western Digital and Toshiba plants to fail

Yokkaichi power outage causes Toshiba and Wester Digital NAND Flash memory production to fail.

Chance. It has been announced that on June 15 there was a power outage in Yokkaichi province. Many will think that this information is not relevant. Things change when there is a memory production plant in the region. Toshiba Memory and Western Digital. This cut has caused a cut in the production of memories and the plant will not be fully operational until mid-July.

He always wants chance, that casual problems happen when prices are at historic lows. We all remember the floods in Taiwan and China that caused Seagate and Western Digital to raise HDD prices. Fires, floods, power outages or faulty chemicals, it doesn't matter, the result is the same every time: price increases.

Energy corete causes Toshiba and WD plant to stop

WD said the power outage lasted about 13 minutes and had a direct impact on wafer production, facilities and equipment. Surprised? According to the company, this cut will mean a drop in the supply of NAND flash wafers by 6 Exabytes in the third quarter.

Toshiba for its part has not given data on how this cut will affect. Although we do know that the two plants are not fully working. It seems that first you have to remove the spoiled products and it will not be until mid-July, when the problem is fixed.

The two companies are evaluating the economic and production impact at this time. Without taking into account the cost of possible damage to machines and equipment, the 6 Exabytes of failed memories have a very high price. TrendForce also highlights that clients could lose confidence in both companies, negatively impacting their finances.

Will this impact the cost of SSDs and RAM?

TrendForce has estimated that the Yokkaichi Operations Campus, owned by WD and Toshiba, produces 35% of NAND memory in terms of revenue. In addition to the plants, it has research and development centers, which were also affected.

Come on, we can already prepare the jar of Vaseline, because it looks like the SSD and RAM are going to go up in price. And is that when the price goes down a lot, there is always an 'external' circumstance that ends up causing a rebound in price. It's still early, but come on, with the background we have, it will affect us.

Source: Anandtech