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Massive fire at hynix fab UPDATE- Minor damage was received to the factory

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A large fire broke out at hynix production facility in Wuxi, China. the Factories primary job was to put SSDs in casings and apply stickers.If the damage is extent then we could see a rise in the price of nand since they began to prioritize that over Dram.

 

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Apparently these are the main factories for nVidia GDDR5 which might cause a shortage for nVidia cards.

 

 

 

The company is ascertaining if there are any casualties and investigating the cause of the fire, which occurred at a plant in Wuxi, China, Son Hee Young, a spokesman of Icheon, South Korea-based SK Hynix, said in an telephone interview. The fire, which started at 3:50 p.m. local time during deployment of equipment, was extinguished by 5:20 p.m., the company said in a statement today.

 

Luckily nobody was killed by the fire, but no word on injured. The prices of ram have already gone up 10% and shipments of memory out of asia have ceased. The fire has destoryed half of hynix's production of memory which may not be as well know in the Dram market they are big in video cards for Nvidia. 

 

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The fire was actually very minimal. Hynix have come out saying that one person had a minor injury. The fire was in the air purification facility and the fab wasn't even touched by the fire. Production is said to begin again soon and insurance will be able to pay for most of the damages. Great to hear that damage was minimal from this fire. 

 

Thanks @Nicktrance for the update.

 

source- http://www.tweaktown.com/news/32725/hynix-fire-not-as-bad-as-expected-company-says-damage-is-minimal/index.html

source- http://www.techpowerup.com/190121/massive-fire-at-sk-hynix-fab-in-wuxi-china.html

source- http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/hynix_memory_plants_on_fire_after_chemical_explosion.html

source- http://www.kitguru.net/components/memory/faith/hynix-fabs-on-fire-after-chemical-explosion/

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Moment of silence, for our alternate timeline future SSDs for reasonable prices

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Oh s**t... hope RAM prices won't go up

If it does it won't be as bad as nand, but we still don't know how bad the factory was damaged.

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*buys an SSD now, before the prices rocket*

 

Good plan!

 

I don't personally need any more storage, but I hope to go that this doesn't do to SSDs, what the floods did to HDDs. Prices went like this: £60 1TB Black = £130 after floods. So will a £125 (840 250GB on Amazon.co.uk) become £260!? That's back to the prices before SSDs were mainstream!

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The price wont jump too much guys, it's not like the controller fab or the band fad went up in flames. This was just for putting the ssds in casings.

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Crap... I'm sure Samsung is happy at least

Happy? They're probably tired from last night's "Company Bonfire"

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hmm... I wonder how marshmallows would taste over burning NAND...

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T_T there goes that £30 8gb ram

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hmm or maybe scRAMptious...  :ph34r:

 

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hmm... I wonder how marshmallows would taste over burning NAND...

I think the it'd be liek giving your tongue some TLC ;) if you get the reference you win 1 internet

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Crap... I'm sure Samsung is happy at least

 

 

Happy? They're probably tired from last night's "Company Bonfire"

 

 

hmm... I wonder how marshmallows would taste over burning NAND...

 

 

Flashy xD

 

 

hmm or maybe scRAMptious...  :ph34r:

 

 

I think the it'd be liek giving your tongue some TLC ;) if you get the reference you win 1 internet

 

 

.... Hahahahaha! This is hilarious!!!

 

On a serious note; why are we having such a laugh over something so serious? I mean, this is a fire... A big fire. A lot of people could have been hurt and the building repairs won't be cheap!

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.... Hahahahaha! This is hilarious!!!

 

On a serious note; why are we having such a laugh over something so serious? I mean, this is a fire... A big fire. A lot of people could have been hurt and the building repairs won't be cheap!

 

Yeah, you're probably right. On a more serious note: Luckily first reports claim nobody was killed. Memory prices have already jumped up by about 10% one hour after the reports.

 

Apparently these are the main factories for nVidia GDDR5 which might cause a shortage for nVidia cards. Hynix has lost half of its production (it used to produce 30% of the world's memory). 

 

The company is ascertaining if there are any casualties and investigating the cause of the fire, which occurred at a plant in Wuxi, China, Son Hee Young, a spokesman of Icheon, South Korea-based SK Hynix, said in an telephone interview. The fire, which started at 3:50 p.m. local time during deployment of equipment, was extinguished by 5:20 p.m., the company said in a statement today.

source: http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/hynix_memory_plants_on_fire_after_chemical_explosion.html

             http://www.kitguru.net/components/memory/faith/hynix-fabs-on-fire-after-chemical-explosion/

 

@Emperor_Piehead you might want to add this as an update to the post.

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This is horrible news!

It's to bad that there was a huge fire at SK Hynix witch makes the chips for the main manufacturer like Apple. Prices for Memory or other main chips prices are going to sky rocket after this. What is going to be the replacement for this?

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Oh shit... Guys. For those who don't know, they manufacture MOST of the video card memory chips for guys like MSI and EVGA. This is bad. REAL BAD.

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