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WD expects to produce six exabytes less flash NAND due to power outage
Western Digital will produce six exabytes less flash NAND memory than planned due to a power outage at its Toshiba Memory Corporation joint venture on June 15, the company reports. An exabyte is 1000 petabytes = 1million terabytes = 1billion gigabytes.
The power failure occurred on Saturday, June 15 in the Yokkaichi region in Japan. The incident affected the facilities of the joint venture between Toshiba and Western Digital, which meant that, among other things, the process tools for processing wafers for the production of nand memory did not function for a short time. TrendForce reports that the power outage lasted only thirteen minutes. Daughter division of TrendForce DRAMeXchange, which analyzes memory prices, expects the prices for 2d-nand to rise as a result of the incident, while the price reductions for stacked 3d-nand may flatten out.
- WD - SAN JOSE, CA - Jun 27, 2019
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) announced that on Saturday, June 15, an unexpected power outage occurred in the Yokkaichi region in Japan, affecting production operations at the flash fabrication facilities operated by the company's joint venture partner, Toshiba Memory Corporation. The power outage impacted both the facilities and process tools and Western Digital is working closely with its joint venture partner to bring the facilities back to normal operational status as quickly as possible.
Western Digital continues to assess the impact of this event. The company currently expects the incident will result in a reduction of Western Digital's flash wafer availability of approximately 6 exabytes, the majority of which is expected to be contained in the first quarter of fiscal year 2020.
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#5685906 Posted on: 07/01/2019 09:17 AM
I hate to say it, but I already was doubtful of SSD prices in full drop. Just like I didn't believe in RAM dropping (they're still not below 2016 prices for low spec DDR4!). Seems I wasn't too far off. Funny how these "accidents" always happen when components / hardware seems to get a big price drop.
I hate to say it, but I already was doubtful of SSD prices in full drop. Just like I didn't believe in RAM dropping (they're still not below 2016 prices for low spec DDR4!). Seems I wasn't too far off. Funny how these "accidents" always happen when components / hardware seems to get a big price drop.
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#5685945 Posted on: 07/01/2019 12:39 PM
Diesel backup generator station of that scale would be very expensive to install and maintain. More than that, it's not really uninterruptable unless it runs full time on - and even a <1 second outage or grid irregularity can ruin the entire batch of wafers in production, which will idle the plant for several months while the full production cycle is restarted.
http://energyskeptic.com/2014/interdependent-chip-fab-electricgrid-financial-sys/
Only megawatt-class uninterruptable battery power would help alleviate these issues, but as I said above these are still very rare.
so What do you think this is for, running the coffee machines
These are prefabricated portable buildings, most likely temporary living quarters for construction workers (a different angle; current state with a parking lot).
Diesel backup generator station of that scale would be very expensive to install and maintain. More than that, it's not really uninterruptable unless it runs full time on - and even a <1 second outage or grid irregularity can ruin the entire batch of wafers in production, which will idle the plant for several months while the full production cycle is restarted.
http://energyskeptic.com/2014/interdependent-chip-fab-electricgrid-financial-sys/
Only megawatt-class uninterruptable battery power would help alleviate these issues, but as I said above these are still very rare.
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#5687678 Posted on: 07/05/2019 11:59 PM
Ram prices are dropping a lot as well, so we gotta do something! >_>
https://www.techpowerup.com/257092/japan-and-south-korea-disagreements-could-compromise-global-memory-supply
Ram prices are dropping a lot as well, so we gotta do something! >_>
https://www.techpowerup.com/257092/japan-and-south-korea-disagreements-could-compromise-global-memory-supply
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#5687787 Posted on: 07/06/2019 07:42 AM
These are prefabricated portable buildings, most likely temporary living quarters for construction workers (a
Diesel backup generator station of that scale would be very expensive to install and maintain. More than that, it's not really uninterruptable unless it runs full time on - and even a <1 second outage or grid irregularity can ruin the entire batch of wafers in production, which will idle the plant for several months while the full production cycle is restarted.
http://energyskeptic.com/2014/interdependent-chip-fab-electricgrid-financial-sys/
Only megawatt-class uninterruptable battery power would help alleviate these issues, but as I said above these are still very rare.
I don't think he's going to fess up to being clueless. I did this professionally. In the US, a complete power loss for the top 5 semi corp I worked for would have shut down every process and destroyed whatever was in process. The few exceptions might be some inkers or a few other systems with their own portable UPS.
These are prefabricated portable buildings, most likely temporary living quarters for construction workers (a
different angle; current state with a parking lot).
Diesel backup generator station of that scale would be very expensive to install and maintain. More than that, it's not really uninterruptable unless it runs full time on - and even a <1 second outage or grid irregularity can ruin the entire batch of wafers in production, which will idle the plant for several months while the full production cycle is restarted.
http://energyskeptic.com/2014/interdependent-chip-fab-electricgrid-financial-sys/
Only megawatt-class uninterruptable battery power would help alleviate these issues, but as I said above these are still very rare.
I don't think he's going to fess up to being clueless. I did this professionally. In the US, a complete power loss for the top 5 semi corp I worked for would have shut down every process and destroyed whatever was in process. The few exceptions might be some inkers or a few other systems with their own portable UPS.
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Sure, why not install a 100 MW backup power plant in the basement, just in case of an event that lasts a few minutes once in a lifetime?
A complete power outage on a production facility which uses industrial-grade voltage could only be alleviated with a multi megawatt-hour class battery backup station - these are still a rarity in Japan, and overall they are ordered and maintained by local power grid companies, not by individual industries.
so What do you think this is for, running the coffee machines or something as equally inane as that