Apple wants permission to buy memory from a blacklisted Chinese supplier
Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for permission to purchase RAM chips from the blacklisted Chinese supplier ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT). The company aims to mitigate rising production costs and price pressure caused by an AI-driven global memory crisis. This move follows a surge in chip pricing that threatens product costs.
What changed
Apple is now requesting a government waiver to source memory chips from CXMT to combat rising costs.
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Apple seeks U.S. approval to buy memory chips from blacklisted CXMT
confidence 90%Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for permission to purchase RAM chips from the blacklisted Chinese supplier ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT). The company aims to mitigate rising production costs and price pressure caused by an AI-driven global memory crisis. This move follows a surge in chip pricing that threatens product costs.
What's confirmed:
- Apple is lobbying the Trump administration to allow the purchase of memory chips from blacklisted Chinese supplier ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT).
- The request is intended to ease financial pressure from rising memory chip prices and a global memory crisis.
- Apple is seeking U.S. government approval or a waiver to source these chips.
Still unconfirmed:
- Memory costs for the iPhone 18 Pro threaten to triple.
- Apple is in negotiations with two different banned Chinese RAM firms.
- A ransomware attack on Tata Electronics caused a leak of iPhone 18 Pro component and manufacturing data.