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Guru3D.com » News » Samsung DRAM and NAND plant shut down for up to three days due to power outage as short as one minute

Samsung DRAM and NAND plant shut down for up to three days due to power outage as short as one minute

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/02/2020 10:20 AM | source: Yonhap | 37 comment(s)
Samsung DRAM and NAND plant shut down for up to three days due to power outage as short as one minute

A power failure at a Samsung Electronics factory disrupted production of semiconductors on Tuesday, industry sources said. They said the power outage that lasted about a minute at the factory in Hwaseong, about 60 kilometers southwest of Seoul, brought production of DRAM and NAND flash chips to a stop.

The world's largest memory chipmaker said it will likely take two to three days to restart production, and said that damage from the temporary stoppage will not be too serious.

According to the company, the outage occurred when power transmission cable at a nearby substation exploded, which cut off power in the neighborhood around the factory. Samsung suffered some 50 billion won (US$43.3 million) in damages last year when a power outage affected its chip factory in Pyeongtaek in southern Gyeonggi Province. The estimated amount of damage from Tuesday's incident is a likely to be in the few billion won range.

Samsung campus in Hwaseong



Samsung DRAM and NAND plant shut down for up to three days due to power outage as short as one minute




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anticupidon



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#5747046 Posted on: 01/02/2020 10:24 AM
Oh boy, here we go again.
Prepare for incoming higher DRAM prices, overpriced GPUs and SSDs.
High tech BS, if you ask me.

cryohellinc
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#5747048 Posted on: 01/02/2020 10:26 AM
I don't buy this at all. Pure BS. Any factory such as this will have redundant active backup generators that will instantly kick in.

My bet this is part of their scheme to artificially limit the supply and surge the prices. Outage here, outage there, contamination here and there, some dude sneezing in a wrong direction and yada yada. I don't buy this.

What's next - a roof leak stops manufacturing process for a week? Or a pigeon that magically flew in?

anticupidon
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#5747054 Posted on: 01/02/2020 10:34 AM
I don't buy this at all. Pure BS. Any factory such as this will have redundant active backup generators that will instantly kick in.

Wait, that's illegal. You're not supposed to know this.
/hides.

cryohellinc
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#5747057 Posted on: 01/02/2020 10:44 AM
Wait, that's illegal. You're not supposed to know this.
/hides.


Mundosold
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#5747066 Posted on: 01/02/2020 11:07 AM
Still remember when a flood at one WD factory was used as an excuse to raise HDD prices for like 3 years, including Seagate, and they both had record profits. The blatant collusion and gouging in tech gets really tiresome.

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