Tim Faulkner ยท 08/03/07 01:35PM
A power failure at a Samsung factory in Seoul, Korea forced a partial shutdown of chip production for the world's largest memory supplier. The breakdown is likely to boost competitors Hynix and Toshiba and impact manufacturers of consumer products using NAND Flash memory... particularly Apple, makers of the iPod and JesusPhone, who had โ until recently โ been reaping the benefits of high margins. [AP]