Some 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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Original post by Chris Davies