Power Outage Impacted Yokkaichi Fab Flash Operations of Western Digital/Toshiba

Western Digital Corp. announced that June 15, an unexpected power outage occurred in the Yokkaichi region in Japan, affecting production operations at the flash fabrication facilities operated by the company’s joint venture partner, Toshiba Memory Corporation.

The power outage impacted both the facilities and process tools and Western Digital is working closely with its joint venture partner to bring the facilities back to normal operational status as quickly as possible.

The company continues to assess the impact of this event. The company currently expects the incident will result in a reduction of Western Digital’s flash wafer availability of approximately 6EB, the majority of which is expected to be contained in 1FQ20.