Japan Quake Will Affect Techs, But Toll May Be Relatively Small

The 8.9-magnitude earthquake that hit Japan Friday could cause big problems for chip production and impact the consumer electronics and PC industries, analysts say, but the Internet held up well. About 40% of the world's NAND flash memory and 15% of DRAMs -- the most popular flash and computer memory chips -- are made in Japan, Jim Handy, director at research firm Objective Analysis, wrote in a research note

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