Replacement and repair of this equipment should provide at least a short term revenue opportunity for companies such as KLA-Tencor, Flexstar, Teradyne and Xyratex as well as a host of other component and hard disk drive assembly and test equipment companies .
The company said that while its own component and disk drive factories in Thailand have not been directly affected by flooding, its ability to manufacture hard disk drives has been impacted due to external component supply constraints, as it has disclosed previously.