Bloomberg reported July 30 that several US senators sent a joint letter to Apple
CEO Tim Cook urging the company not to use storage chips from ChangXin Memory
Technologies (CXMT) and Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC), even for products
sold only in China. The senators noted both firms were added to the PENTAGON’s
recently updated Chinese military companies list. Apple has been seeking to
source storage chips from Chinese suppliers amid capacity shortages, tight
supply and rising prices. Researcher Chen Jing at the Technology and Strategic
Studies Society said Apple is not legally prohibited from procuring from Chinese
firms and warned that politically driven barriers would damage normal Sino‑US
corporate supply‑chain cooperation.
