Close Factory Toshiba, Lenovo confused

TOKYO - The impact of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan continue to cause a domino effect for the whole world industrial components. New, Lenovo hardware manufacturers must ketar-ketir when know Toshiba did the closing of their factory. Toshiba has decided to shut down the factory that produces screen LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) for a while. Lenovo is using the Toshiba LCD, LCD shortage to worry about its product components. "All the assembly plant at Toshiba in Tokyo that makes LCDs for smartphones and other devices will be closed to repair any equipment damaged by the earthquake," said a spokeswoman for Toshiba, as reported by Reuters on Saturday (19/03/2011). Toshiba become a supplier of components for industrial and mobile devices for automotive navigation. Two factories, including one that still operates to contribute five percent of the global LCD market share. Lenovo, one of the only vendors of electronic goods that worry about lack of supply of components for its products due to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. There are many other companies that suffered the same fate, even predicted this would happen to a big company like Apple. "In the short term, this may not affect too much. But we are worried about the impact on next quarter," said the chief executive of Lenovo's Yang Yuanqing

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