The consumer electronics industry is seriously affected as the disaster in Japan took place and it will suffer from bad consequences for 3 more months, in accordance with the experts view.

The supply chain of electronics all over the world is disrupted after the catastrophe in Japan, which was entailed by tsunamis, earthquakes, and nuclear disaster as well. That refers to parts that are used for PCs, and components for Apple’s gadgets, similar to the iPad 2 and the iPhone 5, according to the opinion of specialists.Scott Lin, the president of Acer Taiwan informed us about it.

The supply chain of the computer industry is going to stay intact for 2-3 months and some enterprises are starting to accumulate the inventories of LCD panels, and this becomes the reason for temporary price inflation for PC components. For instance, adhesive, which is used in LCD panels and silicon wafers are produced for the main part in Japan and deficit of these components is felt already. To be more particular, 90% of these parts are produced by such Japanese companies as Hitachi and Sony.

Those who remember the situation after the earthquake in 1999 in Taiwan, know that the main thing is to return the power system in Japan.Michael Yang from iSuppli was interviewed by Computerworld and told that the deficiency of memory chips needed for spartphones and tablets, is in progress because of the disrupted production in the Toshiba company. 40% of global NAND chips are manufactured there. The deficiency of NAND flash memory can bring to postponement of the upcoming iPhone, which was planned for release in June.

Thanks to the position Apple takes in the industry, there is nothing to worry about.NAND shortage can influence other companies as well. The same problem can be referred to the production of iPad, because its 3-cell battery pack is produced in Japan too. All try to guess now how the present situation will tell on consumer electronic purchases.