Samsung loses 60,000 memory wafers nand due to power outage
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More problems related to the shortage of NAND memory chips, a report from Taiwan and South Korea, ensures that the Samsung factory in Pyeongtaek, has suffered a power outage for 30 minutes, which has ruined no less than 60, 000 silicon wafers, which were to lead to NAND memory chips.
A power outage will cause more NAND memory shortages
The integrated circuits in silicon wafers are incredibly small, making any power outages during manufacturing have catastrophic consequences. The cut suffered by the Samsung factory has lasted about 30 minutes, enough to ruin a total of 60, 000 silicon wafers. This figure represents 11% of Samsung's monthly NAND production and 3.5% of global production, with this we can get an idea of the magnitude of the event.
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Samsung is working to aggressively expand its production of NAND memory, which means that this supply shortfall will be addressed in the coming months, as the company's new facilities come online, though in the short term this could even drive up the price. NAND, by reducing availability globally.
An unpleasant news, which comes at a time when the price of NAND memory has begun to stabilize, and the sale prices of SSDs are already falling, it will have to be seen what happens over the next few weeks.
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