Apple has postponed plans to use China’s Yangtze Memory Technology Company (YMTC) memory chips in its products, after Washington imposed tighter export controls on the companies. Chinese technology, Nikkei reported on Monday. According to Nikkei, Apple originally planned to start using state-funded YMTC NAND flash memory chips as early as this year, Nikkei reported. Initially, this chip was planned to be used only for iPhone models sold in the Chinese market.
The US tech giant is finally considering buying up to 40% of the chips needed for all Iphone word pattern YMTCthe newspaper said
Last week, the US added top Chinese memory chip maker YMTC and 30 other Chinese units to a list of companies that US officials could not inspect, heightening tensions with Beijing. , beginning a 60-day period can result in much more severe penalties.
YMTC is also being investigated by the US Department of Commerce over whether it violated Washington’s export controls by selling chips to the blacklisted Chinese telecommunications company. Huawei.
The Biden administration’s sweeping export controls on China are an attempt to slow Beijing’s technological and military progress by cutting off the country’s supply from some semiconductor chips made in China. produced anywhere in the world using American equipment.
Apple did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment, while the YMTC declined to comment.
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