At least they didn't burn another one down
Don't the DRAM and HDD price hikes almost universally come from burning stuff down?
Wouldn't it be better just to say "We're cutting capacity to produce a shortage to force you to pay more"? Or is there an insurance scandal involved as well? After all, how likely is it that their insurance company has someone qualified to assess damages to a semiconductor manufacturing clean room on staff?
"Here, look in this microscope. Do you see that blue spec, they're everywhere now and we have to throw away all our obsolete equipment and replace it with the next generation stuff that we need for the next die reduction".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
