Hynix Memory plants on fire after chemical explosion
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vidra
I already see years of price fixing like with hard drives... Anyway, I'm glad there were no fatalities.
kosh_neranek
Mato87
Whoa wait a minute, I thought this was a joke and that this was done as a publicity act to promote the new graphic cards from AMD. But I was mistaken, my eyes are in tears now :*( I hope the prices won't be as high as it was with WD HDDs, because I plan to upgrade my GTX 670 for GTX 770 or 780 possibly in the upcoming months
Hav0q
Don't they have insurance? I'm pretty sure fires and natural disaster are 100% covered. It's all a marketing scam IMO.
Chillin
Why the hell does everything need to become a conspiracy?
And a FAB isn't built overnight. Each one takes years to build; they are like starships from the future inside:
http://youtu.be/SeGqCl3YAaQ
JonasBeckman
DerSchniffles
Hav0q
This is why:
http://www.kitguru.net/components/memory/faith/far-east-memory-shipments-on-hold-after-hynix-explosions/
They've stopped trade intentionally to see how much market cap they can steal before doing so. C'mon now. It's always just business.
kens30
That's pretty sad to hear first and above all comes the workers and injuries, deaths due to the explosion..But at times like these with already pretty high prices on high end gpu's by Nvida and as the report says that this is one of the main factories for nVidia GDDR5 it will be a kick in the but for the consumers who want to upgrade their aging gpu,
and just when i was planning on getting another GTX 770 hoping that prices will drop with AMD's upcoming 9 series.Since this already has affected the prices on the market i can only imagine what effect this will have on Nvidias gpu's pricing i can see this as the HD disaster that raised prices on HDD's about 50% for quite a long time.
Since the new Sony's Playstation is using GDDR5 instead of GDDR3 of the XBONE although they are using AMD hardware most likely this might effect the pricing on the new Playstation as well on release leaving M$$$$$$$$ X-BONE unaffected which will be a major advantage to them..Overall sad story indeed..oh well...
Hav0q
teleguy
According to this article Nvidia switched to Samsung for most of the GTX 700 series however AMD mainly uses vram made by Hynix.
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcgameshardware.de%2FRAM-Hardware-154108%2FNews%2FHynix-Zwei-Fabriken-brennen-Speicherpreise-steigen-1086859%2F
kens30
Koniakki
I'm not a conspiracy person, but I just don't buy this. Way to convenient a couple months before Holidays season and in the while very important technology products will be released/announce too.
And about the employees, I'm also pretty sure that if indeed was a "controlled fire" they had nothing to fear about. Although in situation like this money/results talk first.
Well if the below article is true, then I take my previous statement back and apologize.
From Reuters:
"Hynix says fire did not cripple China chip-making plant." So the prices ALREADY went up for what it seems no apparent reason. Flawless Victory. Good job everyone. 😉
A quote from the article:
"Currently, there is no material damage to the fab equipment in the clean room, thus we expect to resume operations in a short time period so that overall production and supply volume would not be materially affected," company representative Seongae Park said in a statement.
In addition, we expect that the majority of damage will be covered through insurance."
Source
P.S: I heard from an extremely reliable source that has a friend that his friend has a friend that knows a guy that knows another guy and that guy's girlfriend know another guy's girlfriend that works in a company that deals with both companies, that Samsung and Elpida already set the dates for their own chemical explosion/fires. They the staff and the Fire department have already been notified. 😀
IcE
---TK---
I have a feeling my cards have samsung memory. highly overclockable, any info on what memory chips are in the evga ftw+ 4gb?
Chronic
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE9830SP20130904?irpc=932
kens30
IcE
Rich_Guy
Ouch, so AMD's 9 series won't be priced below the 780 then, probably be about 50x higher now 😱 😀
Anyone wanna buy a 780 for 5k :P
alanm
Nvidia has been using higher performance Samsung GDDR5 in some recent models (770). I hope Samsung can cover the Hynix shortfall, although it will likely take some time.