So a one day power outage resulted in so much memory not being produced that we might have a shortage. That sounds crazy! $54 Billion??? You might want to correct that to be $54 MILLION USD. It was $50 Billion Korean.
For those wondering how the plant going down for one day can result in such a huge loss, all the chips in the production process have to be discarded, not just those that would have been finished today. It takes more than one day to make a chip.
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So a one day power outage resulted in so much memory not being produced that we might have a shortage. That sounds crazy! $54 Billion??? You might want to correct that to be $54 MILLION USD. It was $50 Billion Korean.
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For those wondering how the plant going down for one day can result in such a huge loss, all the chips in the production process have to be discarded, not just those that would have been finished today. It takes more than one day to make a chip.