Another power outage occurred in a chip factory in Toshiba, Japan: production was suspended for 5 days
The semiconductor factory in Japan suffered another accident of power failure leading to production suspension. This time, the chip factory under Toshiba was the winner. The company said that the accident occurred during equipment maintenance. The power failure affected some chips being produced. It is expected to resume production on September 17.
The semiconductor factory to be shut down in this outage is Toshiba Group’s “Japan Semiconductor” Iwate Enterprise, which is mainly engaged in electronic components and storage products, especially automotive MCU chips.
According to Toshiba, the power outage did not cause damage to the production equipment of the plant. In order to restart production, equipment operation has been restarted in succession, and some production lines have resumed operation. It is expected that the production level before the power outage will be completely restored on September 17.
As for the impact on the company’s operation, Toshiba said that in addition to the scrapping of chips in production due to power failure, it also takes time from this stop to resumption of work, which is expected to have an impact on customer shipments.
