According to foreign media reports, a strong earthquake in Japan has affected dozens of global chip factories running, may chip some of the major components that contribute to global shortages and price increases, especially smart phones and tablet PCs commonly used flash memory chips, causing panic in the market.
The earthquake hundreds of miles of the coast of Japan, had a disastrous, is located in those areas with many major chip production plant, most of which are the main flash memory chip plant in Japan. Most of these plants are able to withstand strong earthquakes, analysts predict the earthquake did not give the chip factories of the plant or production equipment cause too much damage.
However, other factors caused the earthquake or to bring some of these plants had a severe impact, in particular the traffic disruption caused by the earthquake so that the finished products of these factories can not be transported to the airport or port, factory employees to work and also by the supply of raw materials severely affected. In addition, the earthquake also spread to Japan, some large global manufacturer of consumer electronics chip supply, and may further result in the chip supply shortages.
Fear of the Japanese flash memory chip industry has been hit
Market research firm iSuppli’s principal analyst of making Ryan?? Jielineike (Len Jelinek), said: “The earthquake has brought the global chip supply chain, the substantive impact will be reflected in the next quarter focus.”
Another Sony laptop battery chip market analyst at Objective Analysis research firm, Jim?? Handy (Jim Handy) is expected, the earthquake will lead to volatility in global chip prices, and caused a large number of chip supply shortages in the near future.
iSuppli said that Japanese chip companies in 2010 sales revenue of about 63.8 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for the global chip market, one-fifth of sales. The earthquake in the global chip market selling NAND flash memory chip products in Sony laptop battery, the impact of the most serious, because the NAND flash memory, including Apple iPhone and iPad is the world’s best-selling electronic products, including the core components. Japan, led by Toshiba flash memory chip makers worldwide annual sales of flash memory chip sales accounted for about 35%.
Earthquake hit north of Tokyo, Japan for up to 200 miles of coastline, while Toshiba and SanDisk flash memory chip plant to large-scale south of Tokyo. Another iSuppli analyst Mike?? Young (Mike Yang) is expected, although the plant may experience these chips can not be shipped abroad for chip packaging and testing, and many other problems, but they continue to produce chips will not be much impact the ability of . He also predicted that the earthquake caused the chip supply shortages or price hikes will not be particularly obvious.
Toshiba spokesman for the U.S. branch of the Women Deborah?? Chalmers (Deborah Chalmers), said Toshiba is for all the factory in Japan to conduct a comprehensive post-disaster inspection, the company will continue to post-disaster impact information collection. She also said that Toshiba is located in Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan has a chip plant production disruptions due to power outage.
Chalmers said: “In addition to plant damage caused by interruption of supplies outside, road, rail, sea and air transport of the interruption to the transport of products in Japan and abroad is a big impact.”
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