As the global outbreak continues to spread, Toshiba announced on April 15 that it would suspend operations at its headquarters and factories in Japan.

As the world's leading supplier of memory solutions, the shutdown of Toshiba is most concerned about whether the purchase volume of high purity krypton gas will be affected.

Toshiba shutdown why so worried? Toshiba has always been in a leading position in the industry, over the years there have been many times due to fire, earthquake, flood and other plant shutdown events, the memory market has brought no small impact. New editor learned that the Toshiba plant shutdown is indeed true, but because the Toshiba plant and the armored company (KIOXIA) are two separate companies, the current operation of the armored company is normal, generally speaking, the impact is not big.

At the same time, affected by the epidemic, the demand for cloud services is accelerating, which in turn increases the demand for NAND storage. In order to control the epidemic, countries and regions began to implement telecommuting and distance education, so the demand for notebook computers increased rapidly and was out of stock, thus increasing the demand for NAND storage. Therefore, the demand for krypton gas has not decreased at present.