US senators want Apple's Chinese chip plan dead, in every country it sells in
A bipartisan group of US senators is pressuring Apple to cease using memory chips from Chinese suppliers CXMT and YMTC in all global products. The move comes amid broader concerns over supply chain security and rising DRAM costs.
Why it matters
The request highlights the intersection of national security, geopolitical tensions with China, and the global semiconductor supply chain crisis.
A bipartisan group of US senators has written to Apple CEO Tim Cook asking the company to walk away from Chinese memory chips altogether—not just in devices sold in America, but in every Apple product sold anywhere in the world. The letter, led by New York Democrat Chuck Schumer and Indiana Republican Jim Banks, names two suppliers: ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC). Both sit on the Pentagon's 1260H list of Chinese military companies. Both were reinstated on that list last month after briefly vanishing from it in February, a disappearance that reportedly annoyed the White House enough to get them put back.The senators want Cook to commit, in writing, that neither supplier's memory will end up inside an Apple device.
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