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Japan supply chain disruption may last all year

Monday, 02 May 2011 15:30

Read this week's issue - May 3, 2011

broken chain

Japanese supply chain disruptions may not recover until the end of the year, says Takeshi Hattori, President of Hattori Consulting International and columnist for Japan's Electronic Journal.

"Supply chains will not fully recover until this fall at earliest or until the end of this year, according to the Ministry of Economics, Trade, and Industry (METI)," writes Hattori in a new report on the effects of the earthquake, "two fabs at the centre of attention—Renesas Electronics’ Naka Factory, a manufacturing base of microcontroller-embedded SoCs for the automobile industries not only in Japan but also worldwide, and SEH’s Shirakawa Plant, the world largest silicon crystal manufacturing site, - have just revealed their recovery roadmap toward this summer."

Read more in the May 2, 2011 Electronics Weekly article, "Japan supply chain disruption may last all year"

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