Lutnick should ban Chinese memory maker CXMT from U.S., Cotton says
Senator Tom Cotton is urging the U.S. Commerce Department to blacklist Chinese memory chip manufacturer CXMT. The move aims to prevent the company from gaining market share and potentially accessing U.S. technology critical for AI development.
Why it matters
The request highlights the escalating geopolitical competition over semiconductor supply chains and the strategic importance of memory chips for AI infrastructure.
Sen. Tom Cotton , R-Ark., is urging the Trump administration to take a harsher stance toward Chinese memory maker ChangXin Memory Technologies .
"CXMT, one of Communist China's national memory chip champions, poses a growing risk to our economic prosperity and military superiority," Cotton wrote in a letter sent Thursday to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. "The U.S. must take action to prevent CXMT from gaining a stronger foothold in the global market."
CXMT is the world's fourth-largest producer of DRAM – or dynamic random access memory – which powers many basic functions of computers and smartphones.
Cotton, in a letter first obtained by CNBC, is asking Lutnick to push CXMT onto the department's Bureau of Industry and Security Entity List, which would significantly restrict U.S. firms' ability to do business with the company.
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