Dec. 9 -- Toshiba Corp.’s shipments of NAND flash memory chips may fall as much as 20 percent in January and February because of a power outage at a plant, the company said.
The outage, which occurred at 5:21 a.m. yesterday, affected some equipment at Toshiba’s Yokkaichi plant in central Japan, said Hiroki Yamazaki, a spokesman at the Tokyo-based company. Almost all equipment should be back on line sometime tomorrow, he said.
Toshiba forecasts its chip unit will make up about 17 percent of revenue totaling 7 trillion yen ($83.5 billion) this fiscal year. The company said in November its semiconductor unit will post operating income of 100 billion yen in the 12 months ending March 31.
Toshiba fell l.6 percent to 430 yen as of 2:26 p.m. on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, while the benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average climbed 0.5 percent. The company, whose businesses range from chips and personal computers to nuclear power plants, has dropped 16 percent this year.