Digitimes’ Erica Yen and Steve Shen report that due to a shortage of controller chips for motors used in hard disk drives due to the manifold disasters in Japan, specifically damage to the three Japanese wafer plants of Texas Instruments, prices of HDDs in the OEM market are likely to increase by 5-10% in the second quarter. Prices in the channel rose 10-15% recently. The […]
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