Samsung power outage causes up to 60,000 wafers damaged for NAND flash memory

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/15/2018 08:40 AM | source: | 23 comment(s)

Samsung experiences a power outage, and in the process damaged NAND memory wafers. On the 9th of March this year, the plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, lost power for about 30 minutes. Good for a 3.5% of the global NAND flash supply in March.

Taiwanese website TechNews reports that 50,000 to 60,000 wafers have been damaged reports myce, that's 11% of Samsung’s NAND flash memory production for March. Samsung is said to have sufficient inventory of NAND flash chips. The NAND flash memory market suffers from a slight oversupply which means lower memory contract prices for NAND manufacturers, according to DRAMeXchange.

The oversupply is caused by traditional lower demand at the beginning of the year and because NAND manufacturers are getting better in producing 3D NAND chips, which means higher yields.

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fantaskarsef
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#5528371 Posted on: 03/15/2018 08:43 AM

I got to laugh, just an hour ago in another thread I read this:

GPU shortage due to mining => Increase in price
GPU shortage due to ram modules => Increase in price
RAM shortage due to ram modules => Increase in price
CPU shortage due to wafers => Increase in price

The only thing needed now is for something to happen to nand flash to skyrocket SSD prices as well.

I know they won't sky rocket, but it's amazing...

cryohellinc
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#5528375 Posted on: 03/15/2018 08:50 AM

Wheres my tinfoil hat....

ivymike10mt
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#5528377 Posted on: 03/15/2018 08:55 AM

Funny thing is.. That We always need to pay.. for other people mistakes...

IchimA
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#5528407 Posted on: 03/15/2018 11:37 AM

Someone said something about this in previous threads

)) of wafer shortage ! This is just ridiculous

holler
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#5528457 Posted on: 03/15/2018 03:13 PM

Funny thing is.. That We always need to pay.. for other people mistakes...

just stop buying overpriced crap and prices will fall.

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