Apple Starts Testing Cheaper Chinese RAM Inside iPhones, but Your Pocket Won’t Feel the Ease
The move could widen Apple’s China supply exposure as CXMT expands DRAM output and U.S. officials keep pressure on Chinese tech firms.
- Apple Inc. has begun testing DRAM chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies for products sold in China, according to the Financial Times on Wednesday.
- With plans to raise at least 29.5 billion yuan—about $4.3 billion—in an IPO, CXMT has become central to China's AI chip ambitions as state-backed shareholders hold 36% of the firm.
- The world's fourth-largest DRAM producer competes with Samsung Electronics, Hynix, and Micron Technology. SemiAnalysis analyst Ray Wang noted that Customers have already booked most of CXMT's output.
- Apple previously faced criticism from Washington lawmakers, including then-Senator Marco Rubio, now Secretary of State, for exploring Chinese memory suppliers in 2022.
- The Trump administration has delayed adding CXMT to the Entity List to avoid escalating tensions with Beijing, though the partnership remains sensitive as Washington monitors China's technology ambitions.
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Apple starts testing cheaper Chinese RAM inside iPhones, but your pocket won’t feel the ease
Apple is testing memory chips from CXMT, a state-backed Chinese chipmaker on the Pentagon's watchlist. Washington pushed back once before. It likely will again.
Apple starts testing China's CXMT memory chips
Apple has begun testing memory chips from China’s state-backed CXMT for devices sold in China, the Financial Times reports. That puts it behind a supplier Washington has flagged as a security risk. Apple has turned to Chinese memory chips for its own devices. It has begun testing DRAM from state-backed ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Apple tests CXMT DRAM, thrusting China's memory champion into AI spotlight
China's CXMT has moved from a little-known state-backed DRAM maker to one of the most closely watched companies in the global memory chip race, with Apple testing its chips for China-market devices and Beijing counting on the company to anchor a domestic AI supply chain.
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