Power outage at Hiroshima facility may hit DRAM supply
Memory maker Micron says it experienced a prolonged power disruption at the Hiroshima DRAM manufacturing facility on Friday 8 July, resulting in a complete shutdown of its production lines.The incident is expected to result in a loss of production output and hit the company's bottom line, Micron warned, but it isn’t clear what effect this may have on the wider memory market.
According to Micron, operations at the Hiroshima plant have resumed at reduced levels and will continue to ramp up this week, but the company said it expects to see production output loss and an associated cost impact from this during its fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 and first quarter of fiscal 2023.
For example, Micron said it is assessing those wafers that were in the midst of production at the time of the power shutdown to determine whether they will meet the company's quality standards, meaning it is likely some wafers will need to be scrapped instead of being made into memory chips.
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