Fire in World’s Leading Factory for RAM Could Constrain Supply, Lead to Price Spikes.
Hynix Fabrication Plants, responsible for roughly 30% of the world’s production of DRAM (DDR3 and GDDR5), has had a massive accident resulting in a fire. Although no casualties were reported, at least two plants (FAB 1 and FAB 2) have been put out of commission indefinitely. This could potentially lead to a butterfly effect around the globe, leading to constrained supplies of the RAM chips that companies the world over, notably nVidia and AMD, use, leading, in turn, to increased prices.
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