Western Digital and Kioxia solve contamination issue affecting NAND fabs in Japan [TechSpot]

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Last month, we learned that Kioxia and Western Digital had to halt operations at two of their manufacturing plants after they discovered a contamination issue affecting BiCS 3D NAND lithography equipment. This led to the immediate loss of a staggering 6.5 exabytes of NAND dies that would have otherwise been…