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February 10, 202212:05 AM UTCLast Updated ago

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Western Digital says contamination impacting production at Japanese
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A Western Digital office building is shown in Irvine, California,
U.S., January 24, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

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U.S., January 24, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

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Feb 9 (Reuters) - Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) said on Wednesday
certain materials at two of its manufacturing units in Japan,
operated by joint-venture partner Kioxia Holdings Corp, were
contaminated and will result in reduced availability of flash storage
devices.

According to the company's current assessment, there would be a
shortage of at least 6.5 exabytes in flash storage availability. One
exabyte equals one billion gigabytes.

Western Digital is working closely with Kioxia to implement necessary
measures that will restore the facilities to normal operational
status as quickly as possible.

Kioxia, one of the biggest producers globally of flash memory and
solid-state storage, is a key supplier to Western Digital. The two
companies were in merger talks last year but they reached a
standstill.

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Reporting by Yuvraj Malik in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra
Eluri

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