DUFF MEMORY INCREASES PRICES
Contamination hits fabs, production binned
A SHARP BUMP in the price of SSD kit will soon make its way down the supply chain thanks to a major ‘incident’. Western Digital revealed that, due to an unspecified contamination in the manufacturing process, it has scrapped up to 6.5 exabytes of 3D NAND chips. One exabyte is a billion gigabytes, so that’s a lot of lost silicon.