Toshiba, which holds around 35% of the world's NAND flash market, suffered a power outage in a key production facility in northern Japan during the disaster.

东芝持有全世界NAND 闪存市场的35% 的份额，在这次灾难中其位于日本北部一处关键生产设施遭遇了电力短缺。

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NAND flash supply has reportedly become tighter as major chip producers Samsung Electronics, Toshiba, Micron and Hynix Semiconductor favor demand for Apple devices.

由于三星，东芝以及海力士等闪存芯片大厂需要优先满足苹果的需求，因此导致了闪存芯片供需状况越发紧张的状况。

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Toshiba will continue to keep and maintain its NAND flash fabs. There appears to be no change on that front.

不过闪存业务方面，东芝的战略则没有任何变化，他们仍将继续保留其名下的NAND闪存芯片厂。

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One driver for Seagate in the transaction is its move into NAND-Flash based products: the company is nearing the launch of a second-generation enterprise solid-state drive offering, and Luczo says a third-generation product under development jointly with Samsung should arrive in 2012.

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To the public, NAND-type flash memory is most familiar in the form of memory cards or sticks used in digital cameras or portable music players.

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