This Japanese Building burned for 82 hours.

[EVILYOSHIDA]

WTC7 Cough

[EVILYOSHIDA]

AKM Factory Fire—A Pro-Audio Industry Disaster
A 82-hour fire in AKM's semiconductor factory is already hurting numerous top pro-audio manufacturers around the globe.

BY CLIVE YOUNG ⋅
PUBLISHED: OCTOBER 29, 2020

AKMNobeoka City, Japan (October 29, 2020)—In the wake of a massive three-day fire at the Nobeoka City factory of semiconductor producer Asahi Kasei Microsystems (AKM), pro-audio manufacturers around the globe are now facing anticipated shortages of crucial DAC and ADC chips used in their products. “It’s probably the most disruptive event in my 40 years of audio industry experience,” said John La Grou, CEO of Millennia Media. “Devastating is not too strong a word. Can 2020 get any worse?”

Millennia is just one of many high-end pro-audio companies with major products designed around AKM chips; others include Solid State Logic, TASCAM, miniDSP, Merging Technologies, SPL of Germany and RME, to name only a few.

The AKM fire broke out at the semiconductor manufacturing plant on Tuesday, October 20, and took three days to put out. While no one was hurt, reportedly 400 employees were evacuated when it began. Parts of the building structure, including sections of walls and the roof, collapsed on October 22 after another fire broke out on the factory’s fifth floor. Throughout the blaze, a chemical odor emanated from the building, thought to be hydrogen chloride generated by the coatings of electrical cables on fire.

[EVILYOSHIDA]

82 hours straight. did it collapse into its own footprint?

[THE_DEAN]

I don't think you understand architecture EY.

The support beams holding up Building 7 were made of wax candles.

So of course it was going to fall.

You can't compare it to buildings that were made with the more traditional steel support beams.

Apples and Oranges.

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(11-03-2020 02:55 PM)THE_DEAN Wrote:  I don't think you understand architecture EY.

The support beams holding up Building 7 were made of wax candles.

So of course it was going to fall.

You can't compare it to buildings that were made with the more traditional steel support beams.

Apples and Oranges.

haha
I know you are into pro audio.
This is really bad for anyone that is into high end HIFI
they basically make all the audio converters for every brand that matters

[Glimmer]

Is there a good fact filled 9/11 thread that we can make a sticky for?

After 19 years this still is a smoking gun and people are still researching and waking up

Let the lurkers smell the coffee

[EVILYOSHIDA]

maybe was 9/11 a black magic ritual?

[Glimmer]

(11-04-2020 12:07 AM)EVILYOSHIDA Wrote:  maybe was 9/11 a black magic ritual?

Yep, that one contains a lot of factual info. But the black magic ritual can scare off a lot off newbies researching this stuff. So i would suggest a more mainstream title to trigger people to take a peak in the rabbithole

[EVILYOSHIDA]

yes. we could change the title or clone the thread with a diff title.
9/11 was really the really the beginning of the end