The series of earthquakes in Japan damaged the production of any technical device. The production of computer components on the Japanese islands is sufficiently developed, local factories are in certain cases the almost only suppliers of similar production in the world. The physical destruction and the economic policy of electric power, affected the activity of local enterprises and the deliveries of separate forms of those completing.
The three Japanese factories Of texas instruments was damaged they will not allow the company to release sufficient controllers for hard disks, which are used in the production Of seagate and Western digital. According to experts estimations, in the current block the world volumes of hard disks deliveries will be limited to hundred million pieces, whereas in the past block they reached hundred sixty million.
The emergent scarcity of drives will force hard disks producers to raise prices in the second quarter: to 5-10% for the OEM- clients, and to 10-15% for retail. The deliveries of texas instruments controllers from Japan will be renewed only to September this year. Related Products :
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