Power outage halts Toshiba's nand production
Production at one of Toshiba's key chip factories has been halted by a cut in power, halting its production of nand flash memory chips. Shipments from its central Japan plant could be cut by up to 20% in January and February, even with the factory due to resume normal operations on Friday, a Toshiba spokesman.
The world's second biggest nand manufacturer, after Samsung, produces all its chips at the Yokkaichi facility. The Toshiba spokesman declined to comment on the extent of the likely effect on chip business operating profits, which the company said in September were on track to hit 100billion yen for the year to next March.
