Chip Shortage

Posted on August 3, 2007 at 12:35 pm (PST)

Samsung had to shut down production on six of its lines in Seoul because of a power outage caused by a faulty transformer. It stopped production of flash memory, DRAM and logic chips. While power was restored within one day, we are now told to expect shortages of NAND chips, and possibly the ones for iPods and iPhones.