Minute-long Power Outage at Samsung Plant Damages Millions Worth DRAM and NAND

Flyordie · Jan 2, 2020

RH92 said:
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Got my Patriot Viper Steel 2x8 4000Mhz B-die kit last week , Samsung has nothing on me . This being said i sense some GDDR price hike which sucks for next gen GPUs .

Only for those that upgrade often. I'll keep rocking my Vega64 for as long as its alive.

RH92 · Jan 2, 2020

kmetek said:
so memory prices are going up? only RAM?

Article talks about DRAM and NAND so that includes RAM , GPU RAM and SSDs .

Flyordie said:
Only for those that upgrade often. I'll keep rocking my Vega64 for as long as its alive.

Well yes and no . Sure if all you do is 1080p gaming ( as an example ) then you have all the reasons to keep that Vega64 for as long as it lasts but when you start gaming at 1440p/ 4K at high framerates then you are kinda forced to upgrade to the next gens especially if you are not willing to pay 1000+ bucks for a GPU ( personaly i never go above 500 bucks ) since new generations bring higher performance at lower price points .

eidairaman1 · Jan 2, 2020

neatfeatguy · Jan 2, 2020

Only thing I can think of is the National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation when the light switch in the garage controls the power to the outside Christmas lights...someone there flipped the wrong light switch.

Flyordie · Jan 2, 2020

RH92 said:
Well yes and no . Sure if all you do is 1080p gaming ( as an example ) then you have all the reasons to keep that Vega64 for as long as it lasts but when you start gaming at 1440p/ 4K at high framerates then you are kinda forced to upgrade to the next gens especially if you are not willing to pay 1000+ bucks for a GPU ( personaly i never go above 500 bucks ) since new generations bring higher performance at lower price points .

Mine handles 1440p just fine. It clocks up to 1,820Mhz core (and hold that) and if I need more VRAM bandwidth.. It'll do 1130-1140 on the HBM2 and HBCC works great, especially since I have 32GB of DRAM with tight timings in quad channel. Never once noticed any issues with RE2 and it was eating up all 8GB of VRAM (but reserved 13GB).

Zubasa · Jan 2, 2020

neatfeatguy said:
Only thing I can think of is the National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation when the light switch in the garage controls the power to the outside Christmas lights...someone there flipped the wrong light switch.

I am not saying it is Aliens but it is Aliens. :laugh:

Prince Valiant · Jan 2, 2020

On the flipside, the resulting drop in output could help Samsung push out its swelling NAND flash and DRAM inventory, reports Yonhap, citing an analyst.

What an amazing coincidence :eek:

!

Sir Alex Ice · Jan 2, 2020

Poor nand markers, they are hit so hard and so often by power outages. The avengers endgame script had less plot twists.

Tartaros · Jan 2, 2020

I like to imagine there is an old man with a mustache, a beret, an a dog in a cabin with a big red shutdown button between Samsung and the power plant. The guy mostly reads the newspaper, goes to feed the pidgeons, takes the dog for a walk in the forest, smokes in pipe and when nand prices go down, he receives a call and has to push the button.

eidairaman1 · Jan 2, 2020

Should be investigated

HTC · Jan 2, 2020

Millions ...

But ... but ... how will they ever rebound from that, will all the BILLIONS in profits ...

prnsforum · Jan 2, 2020

Ah shi*, he we go again

Turmania · Jan 2, 2020

Mama Mia! here we go again.... and no authorities wont do anything....

rtwjunkie · Jan 2, 2020

BakerMan1971 said:
New year new attempt to hike Ram prices
I agree with so many here, there is no way backup generators didn't kick in, if they didn't I am available for business continuity advice for a reasonable fee

Actually I saw a story here yesterday or today that RAM and NAND prices were expected to go up this year.

Apparently the stories got released in the wrong order! :roll:

Totally · Jan 2, 2020

Didn't we call this when they made an announcement expected ram pricing, earnings report I believe. I do commend them on their creativity, flood, fire, contamination, now power outage added to the list.

neatfeatguy · Jan 2, 2020

Totally said:
Didn't we call this when they made an announcement expected ram pricing, earnings report I believe. I do commend them on their creativity, flood, fire, contamination, now power outage added to the list.

Next we'll probably have some story about some kind of bug or rodent infestation that halts production for X amount of time and costs millions and millions of dollars lost.

R-T-B · Jan 2, 2020

eidairaman1 said:
Should be investigated

It's certainly getting suspicious but I doubt that'll ever happen, frankly.

hat · Jan 2, 2020

Price hikes incoming:

Zareek · Jan 3, 2020

In my opinion, if a company doesn't have enough foresight to put things in place to prevent this type of failure. The company itself and it's investors should eat the cost, not their customers. That seems reasonable and ethical to me but you know this event will make DRAM and NAND prices go up!

Totally · Jan 3, 2020

Zareek said:
In my opinion, if a company doesn't have enough foresight to put things in place to prevent this type of failure. The company itself and it's investors should eat the cost, not their customers. That seems reasonable and ethical to me but you know this event will make DRAM and NAND prices go up!

They do, they probably don't care enough to remedy it until there is an incident. Ask me how I know.

FreedomEclipse · Jan 3, 2020

kmetek said:
so memory prices are going up? only RAM?

SSDs too

ur6beersaway · Jan 3, 2020

neatfeatguy said:
Next we'll probably have some story about some kind of bug or rodent infestation that halts production for X amount of time and costs millions and millions of dollars lost.

Good guess or
Probably a Japanese slug.....

Small slug throws Japan's high-speed rail into chaos
A single, small slug has been blamed for a massive power failure that brought part of Japan's high-speed rail network to a standstill last month.

www.cnn.com

Alien88 · Jan 3, 2020

Yep, have to say, this seems dodgy as hell. There's no excuse for Samsung, a huge battery manufacturer (www.samsungsdi.com/ess/index.html), not to have a battery backup system. Maybe they need to talk to Tesla (https://hornsdalepowerreserve.com.au/overview/)

Dave65 · Jan 3, 2020

Sure it did.

Athlonite · Jan 3, 2020

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Minute-long Power Outage at Samsung Plant Damages Millions Worth DRAM and NAND

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