Digitimes Insight: Sony PS3 supply may run tight due to quake-hit laser diode production

Tom Lo

, DIGITIMES Research, Taipei

Mar 25, 2011, 11:46 0

The massive earthquake in Japan has impacted the supply chain of Blu-ray Disc (BD) players. Blue laser diodes used in BD players' optical pick-up head units (OPU) are mainly produced in Japan. Sony's blue laser diode manufacturing subsidiary in Fukushima,...

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