SK Hynix major fire at FABs 1 and 2 at Wuxi, China

[dottorrent]

SK Hynix has been forced to shut down both of their major memory plants at Wuxi, China, after a Chemical explosion occurred just earlier today. This has caused SK Hynix to half production values from 30% to 15%. If the damage to both facilities is high enough, we could see a major price increase in DDR3 RAM, NAND flash memory, DRAM and Video RAM, which is a major concern for companies like Nvidia and Corsair, whom have which halted memory and video card production until a confirmation on the extent of the damage to both FABs.

Read more here -
http://www.kitguru.net/components/memory/faith/hynix-fabs-on-fire-after-chemical-explosion/

 

[wanamingo]

Holy crap! Real news!

Supposedly there are plants in China who are gearing to cover the shortage. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/04/us-hynix-suspension-idUSBRE9830SP20130904

Its a good thing I just pull tens of MB of DDR, im rich.