After the devastating March 11 earthquake, high-tech companies in Japan were called "the worst-hit areas."
Up to now, major Japanese IT companies including Sony, Toshiba, and Nikon have all been confirmed to be affected by the earthquake. Their major factories are currently shut down or out of service. The specific losses are being assessed.
The reporter learned from the interview that the northeastern region, where the disaster has been severely affected, is also a production center of semiconductors and wafers for semiconductors in Japan and the world. Once wafer supply is insufficient, downstream semiconductor shipments will have an important impact.
High technology is an important pillar industry in Japan. Despite the industry's shift the tide of the last century, Japan will be a lot of technology products manufacturing base transferred, but in the high-tech field of raw materials, electronic components and other Japanese companies still master the core technology, semiconductor, panel and sensors for the The main high-end core product manufacturing is also retained in Japan. Japanese companies influence the supply of global electronic products through the control of core technologies and raw materials.
Japanese IT giant "wounded"
Nikon, Fuji, Sony, Panasonic, NEC, Tokin, and other factories in Miyagi Prefecture suffered losses at different levels.
Miyagi Prefecture, the most affected area, has gathered a large number of IT product manufacturers. According to the official website of Miyagi Prefecture in Japan, Nikon, Fujitsu, Sony, Panasonic, NEC, Tokin and other companies all have factories in the region. The main products are digital camera, compact disc, car battery and other key parts and components products. These companies have suffered varying degrees of damage at local factories.
Some Japanese high-tech companies have reported the damage on March 13th. Among them, Sony closed six factories, one is a semiconductor factory in Miyagi Prefecture, the other factory mainly produces Blu-ray discs, magnetic heads and batteries. Panasonic’s joint venture ceased production and it produced batteries for hybrid vehicles. Panasonic has also closed four factories in Fukushima, Sendai and other places. These factories are mainly used to produce Panasonic "LUMIX" series of digital cameras. The Utsunomiya Office, where Canon’s SLR camera lens was produced, is currently closed.
Another hard-hit area is a semiconductor raw material supplier. The Northeast region, where the disaster has been severely affected, is Japan's and the world’s production center for semiconductor raw materials and wafers. Tantalum wafers are a highly sophisticated raw material used mainly for the production of semiconductors, which are only produced by a few manufacturers worldwide. The Shirakawa Plant, Japan's largest Shin-to-wafer company, is an important plant of Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., which is located in Fukushima Prefecture, where nuclear power plants have problems. The plant provides 22% wafer production worldwide and is currently shut down.
In addition, due to the high precision required for semiconductors, panels, etc., earthquakes may cause shifts in the machine platforms and affect the quality of products. Japan is also an important exporter of chips and panel products. Therefore, earthquakes bring these two industries together. The influence was also concerned by the outside world.
The reporter learned from the interview that the chip and panel industries have been relatively less affected. Elpida, the world's largest DRAM chip manufacturer, said that the company's Hiroshima factory's location on March 11 has a magnitude of 1 and therefore has little impact. Toshiba, a major manufacturer of flash memory chips, also stated that its main plant is located in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, Japan, with a shock level of 2. The plant was once shut down, but the plant facilities were not destroyed and production has now resumed.
March 13, the Japanese panel maker Sharp company official said in an interview with this reporter, due to the Sharp panel production line mainly in western Japan, far away from the epicenter, in addition to Sharp plant has adequate shock measures, so Almost unaffected. Panasonic, another panel maker, is similar.
Taiwan and South Korea reject new orders
On the one hand, because of the limited inventory of raw materials, on the other hand, it is also waiting for market price changes.
For Japanese technology companies, the damage caused by the earthquake is inevitable. The outside world is more concerned with whether the negative effects of the loss will be quickly transmitted to the production and supply of downstream electronic products.
According to news from the panel industry in Taiwan, due to the large number of suppliers of materials and components in the upper reaches of the panel industry, whether or not it will cause supply impacts is still being confirmed. However, even if the upstream suppliers of materials supplied by Japan are affected by the earthquake, there will be inventory available for short periods of time. In addition, Taiwanese manufacturers can provide support, so emergency response measures have not yet been initiated.
According to Gu Wen, a senior industry analyst at iSuppli, the Japanese technology industry is a closed system. Although the scale of production is large, the main product market is still in Japan, so the impact on the global supply of electronic products is limited. For example, in the semiconductor field, regardless of Toshiba, Sony or Renesas, the main source of profits is in Japan, accounting for at least 50% of its total revenue. In 2010, the sales revenue of Japanese chip companies was about 63.8 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for about one-fifth of the global chip market sales revenue.
"The main impact may be to Toshiba's flash memory production." Gu Wen said that Toshiba provides 45% of the world's NAND flash memory chips, including Apple iPad2 and other products, including the main provider. Delayed delivery of chips due to the earthquake may cause production plans for products such as tablets and smartphones. It is expected that the price of flash memory will fluctuate in the short term, but the impact will not be too great from the perspective of long-term supply.
Institute of Taiwan Shanghai Tuo Pu industrial manager David Lee said in an interview, in view of the region are Japan and China Taiwan's frequent earthquakes, some international customers usually have earthquake prevention plan, in the short term Japanese manufacturers to undertake Orders were transferred to areas such as Taiwan and South Korea, so the earthquake will not affect the long-term industrial competition. On the supply of some key components, usually the consumer electronics manufacturers will give upstream suppliers a one-to-a-month pre-production cycle, and suppliers will also stock up to at least one week of inventory, so they are usually not affected too much.
The reporter also learned from Taiwan’s related tech industry that at present, due to the fact that Japan’s earthquake damage is still not clear, many companies in South Korea and China’s Taiwan region have now announced their rejection of new big orders, partly because of limited raw material inventory. On the other hand, it is also waiting for market price changes.
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