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"Samsung" and "nonchalant" paired for first time in headline |
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Aug 06, 2007 at 02:15 PM |
Blamed on a "faulty transformer unit," Friday's power outage that took down six chipmaking lines for as long as 22 hours at Samsung's massive Giheung complex may not have had as negative an impact as originally thought.
The company says its original loss estimates have been downgraded and that everything is up and running. Good thing, since a prolonged shutdown of about 35% of the world's NAND flash production (and 90% of Samsung's, both iSuppli guesstimates) would make for some sleepless nights among the chaebol's executive branch and customer base.
Other electronics industry media outlets have given the follow-up story a cursory writeup (Electronic News barely OK, EETimes pretty weak)---even Associated Press does not acquit itself well (what gives, oh mighty AP?!). But I found the news coverage from today's Korea Times, titled "Samsung Nonchalant About Chip Production," to be way more informative than anything else out there---with the bonus of seeing "Samsung" and nonchalant" paired for what must be the first time in headline history. (Those two words would certainly never be used in the same sentence by any of Samsung's equipment, materials, and subsystems suppliers!)
For more details than you're likely to find elsewhere, here's the link to the Korea Times' Samsung power-outage follow-up story.
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