Power Outage Disrupts Samsung NAND Flash Plant

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Power outage reportedly disrupts Samsung NAND flash production
A brief power outage took place at Samsung Electronics’ NAND flash plant in Pyeongtaek on March 9. Wafers damaged in the incident are equivalent to 3.5% of the global supply in March, a report from Taiwan’s TechNews.
About 5,000-60,000 wafers were damaged during a half-hour power outage at the Samsung NAND flash fab, the report quoted market watchers as saying. The damaged wafers are equivalent to about 11% of Samsung’s overall NAND flash output in March.