Power outage or flash memory prices rose

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Toshiba suffered a power outage at its fab in Yokkaichi, Japan. Although the time is very short, it will have a very serious impact on Toshiba's NAND flash memory production line, and it will even affect the global flash market price trend in the coming months.

Nippon Electric Power Co., Ltd. has confirmed that at 5:21 AM on Wednesday, the Toshiba fab in Japan’s Yokkaichi area experienced a sudden drop in supply voltage. Although it was reported that the voltage sag actually lasted only 0.07 seconds, it caused great trouble to the large number of equipment in Toshiba's fab and the flash semi-finished products on the production line. The whole production line was shut down and it was only announced today (Friday). Full restoration of normal production.

Toshiba is the world’s second-largest NAND flash memory maker after Samsung and its flash memory production capacity is all focused on the Yokkaichi fab. A Toshiba spokesman said that the accident will cause Toshiba's flash memory shipments to drop by 20% in January-February next year.

Analysts predict that the global market will increase flash memory prices by 10%. Although major customers such as Apple who have signed long-term supply contracts will not receive much impact, second-tier and third-tier flash memory product manufacturers will all be dragged down, leading to flash memory products. Stock shortages or price increases may even affect the listing plans of various tablet products that use flash memory.