Contamination Leads to the Loss of Over 6.5 Exabytes of WD and Kioxia 3D NAND

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Contamination leads to the loss of over 6.5 Exabytes of WD and Kioxia 3D NAND.

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That is 6.5 million terabytes.

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The incident leads to lower supply of higher prices for the tech we love.

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They have reported that contamination issues have been detected at its NAND production facilities.

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It impacted up to 6.5 exabytes of flash memory, which will no doubt have a market impact.

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The operations were affected at its Yokkaichi and Kitakami plants.

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It happened in late January.

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It’s a major issue and will not restart for some time.

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We don’t know if it has already shipped in products.

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The total capacity shipped in 2021 is roughly 333 million SSDs.

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It's not a massive loss in terms of the overall market.

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