Lutnick tells Apple the US opposes buying CXMT and YMTC memory chips

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said he told Apple "plainly" that the Trump administration opposes sourcing memory from CXMT and YMTC, a day after touring Apple's Houston manufacturing center with Tim Cook. YMTC sits on the Commerce Entity List and the Pentagon designates both firms as Chinese military companies, so Apple's route out of the global memory shortage now excludes the cheapest supply — and its $600B domestic-manufacturing pledge did not buy an exemption.

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