…
Hard drive giant Western Digital said a contamination issue in two of its Japanese factories severely impacted production, resulting in a loss of 6.5 billion gigabytes of flash storage.
The company admitted the mishap in a Wednesday press release, revealing the contamination issue had effectively shut down two of its NAND production facilities. The incident will impact the availability of the chips that are vital to production of many electronic devices and serve as the primary component of solid state hard drives (SSDs).
Western Digital claimed to be working with its joint venture partner Kioxia (formerly Toshiba) to “restore the facilities to normal operational status as quickly as possible.”
https://www.rt.com/business/549105-western-digital-factory-contamination-shortage/