A cewar Anandtech, Western Digital ta fada a ranar Laraba cewa ita da abokin karawarta Toshiba Memory (TMC) sun sami nasarar mayar da kusan dukkan layin hadin gwiwar samar da kayayyaki a filin Yokkaichi City Park na Japan. Lalacewa wafers da kayan aiki na masana'antu zai haifar da asarar Western Digital ya kai $ 339 miliyan.
A ranar 15 ga Yuni, fitowar wutar lantarki na tsawon mintuna 13 a Yokkaichi, Japan, ta shafi kayan aikin samarwa tare da Western Digital da TMC. Lamarin ya lalata wayoyin sarrafawa da wuraren sarrafa kayayyakin kamfanin. Western Digital ta ce a karshen watan Yuni cewa hadarin zai rage samar da wutar lantarki na NAND a cikin kwata na uku da kusan 6 EB (exabytes), wanda zai zama kusan rabin kamfani na kwata-kwata NAND. Toshiba kuma ya tabbatar da cewa wafer din da kayan aikin sun lalace, amma bai bada cikakken bayani ba.
Shugaban kamfanin Western Digital Steve Steveiganigan ya ce ya zuwa yanzu, kusan dukkanin karfin sashen sarrafa ayyukan Yokkaichi an sake sabunta shi. Ya ce, “teamsungiyoyin Western Digital da TMC suna aiki tuƙuru don gudanar da aikin gyaran. Tun daga yanzu, kusan dukkanin kayayyakin masana'antar sun koma yadda ake yi.
Western Digital ta yi imanin cewa duk wayoyin da aka rasa za su kasance a cikin satin Satumba, amma asarar da yawa za su kasance mai yawa. A cikin kwata na hudu na FY 2019 (2019Q2), kamfanin ya caji $ 145 miliyan a cikin kayan aiki da ayyukan da aka shafa da kuma shirin sake kashe wani $ 1.7 zuwa $ 190 a cikin kwata na Satumba. Sabili da haka, jimlar tasiri akan Western Digital zai kai dala miliyan 3.15 zuwa 339.
A gefe guda, TMC bai bayyana tasirin hatsarin ba, amma idan ya yi asarar adadin kuɗin ɗaya kuma dole ya sake ci gaba da samarwa, to asarar TMC zai iya zama daidai da Western Digital. Gabaɗaya, ɓoye mintuna 13 zai cinye kamfanonin biyu $ 6.3 zuwa $ 678 miliyan.