A very , very abbreviated power outage at a Toshiba factory forced the caller to entirely halt operations at the decisive plant . This could think as much as a 20 % drop curtain in chip shipments which could contribute to product shortage everywhere .
First , how the hell can a split second mogul outage do so much damage to a presumably well - anele political machine that is a chipmaking facility ? Well it can because the chipmaking summons is so damn precise . ( And it also can when the backup generators die , like in this grammatical case . )
A Toshiba spokesman said that “ if the outage stops even for a moment , the air - purifying and conditioning system in a sporting room ( an area liberal of microscopical airborne atom that could damage a microchip ) all the chips inside may be ruined . ” The check inside that “ clean room ” during the outage were NAND flare memory ( wide used in products everywhere , especially Apple ’s ) .
The exact amount of harm is n’t eff yet and they ’re planning to fire up the manufactory sometime Friday , but as it stand now they ’re expecting a 20 % decay in output for January and February . That could be vast given that Toshiba makes up 40 % of the NAND Flash memory market but luckily , demand is typically down in the early months ( post vacation season ) and Apple ( a gravid buyer of NAND Flash memory)is supposedly okay . But if you find iPad 2 supplies to be in little supplying , this may be why . [ WSJ ]
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