Power outage hampers Samsung NAND production - 60,000 wafers damaged

[WYP]

3.5% of this month's global supply of NAND is affected.



Read more about Samsung's reported fab power outage.

 

[RobM]

Excuse to keep prices high, places like that have backup generators for such things.

 

[Avet]

Exactly the thing that market needed.

 

[cj09bruno]

Excuse to keep prices high, places like that have backup generators for such things.

although true generators that large take time to start, and i bet if they loose power for even a sec it can be enough to make a wafer unusable

 

[Bartacus]

In a real enterprise setup, it's not just a generator, it's also an entire room full of UPS batteries. You don't lose power for even a second. The batteries hold the load until the generator spins up (which is in our case, a turbine / jet engine). It's pretty neat stuff. You'd figure a major plant would have a set up like that, or better.

 

[RobM]

although true generators that large take time to start, and i bet if they loose power for even a sec it can be enough to make a wafer unusable

Any professional outfit would have a proper redundancy.

In a real enterprise setup, it's not just a generator, it's also an entire room full of UPS batteries. You don't lose power for even a second. The batteries hold the load until the generator spins up (which is in our case, a turbine / jet engine). It's pretty neat stuff. You'd figure a major plant would have a set up like that, or better.

Indeed, when I was working for HP we had outages without us even knowing about till we could hear the generators running

 

[grassman]

The auto industry has sophisticated back ups as well, Think it's time Samsung is investigated.