Valantar"Oh, flash prices have been dropping continuously due to market saturation you say? Well that's unfortu*whoops* Oh, how on earth did I manage to spill that into this container of this vital chemical? How clumsy of me."

Vya DomusNot that I actually believe this was done on purpose but this shows how absurd these situations have gotten. You just can't have a handful of players account for the vast majority of the volume manufactured in critical industries, the world literally runs on computers. Accidents do happen and what do you then ? Just casually accept that a significant chunk of the supply of critical components will be gone for X amount of weeks/months/years ?

TheUn4seenWhoopsiedoodles. It's funny how those accidents always tend to happen when prices drop too much and the companies don't really try to make it sound plausible. Memory has gotten too cheap? Say you had an accident and pump those prices, no one can question it because your process is a trade secret. But here, the inrernally verified documents say that's what happened, and a corporation would never lie for profit.

Wirko6.5 exabytes ... divide that by the number of people on Earth. You need to work for an advertiser spy agency or a government spy agency to have some understanding of what this amount of data even means.

goodeedididThat's like all the flash memory in the world right? lol

A Kioxia statement says that, in late January, a chemical used in 3D NAND production was found to be contaminated and production was affected. Measures are being taken to restore normal production. Manufacture of 2D NAND is not affected.

The consequences of this latest incident may push the price of NAND Flash in Q2 to spike 5~10 per cent.

If the affected chemical was a gas or liquid then tanks used to store it, and pipes used to deliver it around the plant and into machines, will have to be emptied and cleaned, and then tanks restocked. The machines themselves will have to be cleaned. This will take time.

It is unclear to what extent the chemical impacts could have affected the fab manufacturing equipment.

bugIt's also funny how these comments always pop up every time a fab has a mishap like this. Despite the fact that 1TB SSD have stagnated at 10-12c/GB for years.

Testsubject01Some people might argue, that it is due to those oddly coincidently timed accidents over and over. We will never know.

bugIt's like storage makers have no respect for people's pr0n collections anymore :(