Wednesday, September 4th 2013
Massive Fire at SK Hynix Facility in Wuxi, China
A massive fire broke out this afternoon (local time), at a SK Hynix production facility in Wuxi, China. At this moment, pictures and videos of the fire are swarming through local social networks, and there are no official announcements by either the local authorities, or the company itself. Incidentally, this isn't the first fire accident at an SK Hynix manufacturing facility, a Korea-based fab suffered one in February 2008. The facility hit by fire is rumored to be one that handles packaging (placing bumped dies inside ceramic or plastic shells, and labeling them). If the extant of damage to the facility is high, it might affect NAND flash prices more than DRAM, since the company recently prioritized NAND flash over DRAM for the facility.
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ChipHell Forums
38 Comments on Massive Fire at SK Hynix Facility in Wuxi, China
conspiracytheory that the fire was set by someone working in for the HDD industry, to keep SSDs from getting attractive prices?I mean, it was becoming a tendency, amongst enthusiasts at least, to only buy HDDs for large storage purposes. If prices skyrocket on SSDs...then you only have HDDs.
There arent that many players in the HDD Cartel but if i remember correctly Seagate & WD (either both or one of the two) were taken to court for price fixing and fined by the EU.
When you talk about SSDs however, its a much bigger market and there are a lot more players in the game and that makes trying to play the game a lot harder as every company has to agree on a story and keep their prices inflated
Samsung I think, will be OK during all of this, so their drives will likely stay cheap, and HDD's will stay as cheap as they are. More than likely the other brands will take a bigger hit, along with GPU's. Samsung chips are in short supply, and everybody else was using Hynix memory.
False alarm guys, and hope the injured person has a speedy recovery.
Usually people die or get badly injured when they become stuck inside the burning building or while trying to contain the fire until firefighters arrive.
I didn't say that I wish for everybody to be ok because I thought it was implied. :pThere are no details regarding the poor fella, but I bet he has suffered from smoke inhalation. So yeah, I wish the guy a good recovery with appropriate treatment.
The 1st comment on that news states that the black smoke clouds were toxic and affected the neighboring population. Which is really bad and, for some reason, wasn't reported in the news.