Samsung's Seoul FactorySome reports have pegged Apple’s products as the biggest consumer of contemporary flash memory production, leaving scant pickings for the competition.  Now, the supply could be even shorter thanks to a power-outage hitting six of Samsung’s key NAND production lines, forcing them to shut down.  Samsung produce the memory chips used in both the iPhone and iPod lines.

Seemingly caused




by a malfunctioning switchboard, the lines affected produce up to 91-percent of Samsung’s NAND output and were worth $12.4bn in global sales for the company last year.  In response, Samsung’s share price dropped 1.3-percent, while prices for 8GB chips rose to $19, an increase of 6-percent.

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