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A sudden accident at a Toshiba chip factory in Japan: stop production for 5 days

Update time : 2022-09-14 15:24:05

The semiconductor factory in Japan suffered another accident of power failure leading to production suspension. This time, the chip factory under Toshiba was the winner. The company said that the accident occurred during equipment maintenance. The power failure affected some chips being produced. It is expected to resume production on September 17.

The semiconductor factory that was shut down by the power outage is Toshiba Group's "Japan Semiconductor" Iwate Office, which is mainly engaged in the business of electronic components and storage products, especially automotive MCU chips.
According to Toshiba, the power outage did not cause damage to the plant's production equipment. In order to restart production, the equipment has been restarted one after another, and some production lines have resumed operation. It is expected to fully restore the production level before the outage on September 17. As for the impact on the company's operations, Toshiba said that in addition to causing the scrapping of chips in production, Toshiba said that it will take time from this shutdown to resumption of work, and it is expected to have an impact on customer shipments.
The semiconductor factory in Japan has been a little more unexpected recently. Far from it, on July 5, the factory wire of Nippon Rexa Electronics was hit by lightning, resulting in a transient voltage drop, which led to the temporary shutdown of the factory since July 5. On July 8, Meguiar's memory factory in Hiroshima, Japan suffered a long-term power outage, which affected the safety of personnel, but led to the closure of some facilities and affected production and supply to a certain extent.
In February of this year, the flash memory factory of Western Digital and Kioxia (the predecessor of Toshiba Storage) in Japan was exposed to a pollution accident, causing a large number of flash memory chips to be scrapped. The affected NAND chips produced about 6.5EB. Due to the reduction in supply, Western Digital and other companies soon Announcing the price increase of flash memory, but the general trend in the market is that the price of flash memory is declining. In the end, there was no storm, and the price of flash memory has also fallen all the way to the present.

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