Japan quake's toll on the electronics industry

April 14, 2011 | Julien Happich | 222906493
Japan quake's toll on the electronics industry

NEWS UPDATES: As well as a heavy toll on the Japanese people, the cumulated effects of the March 11th earthquake, tsunami and the series of nuclear facility accidents that ensued mean a shortage in both power and silicon output at wafer fabs. In collaboration with EE Times Japan and EE Times US, we have centralized all the latest news about the repercussions of the earthquake on the Japanese and global electronics industry.


IHS: CMOS image sensor supply hit by quake

International Electronics Forum - postponed

Toshiba's Iwate fab out until April

Renesas restarts hampered by black outs

Nokia expects production disruption from earthquake and tsunami

TSMC sees some impact from quake

EBV provides first-hand supplier updates on its webpage

Infineon donates 100,000 Euros to help Japan’s natural disaster victims

Supply chain: too lean, too mean, too late now

Report: Japan quake hits microcontrollers

Impact on global NAND-flash bit supply to result in less than 4 percent shrink in 2Q11

Panic buying hits IC supply chain

Quake hits iPad 2 supply chain

Quake caused 'substantial damage' to TI fab



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