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U.S. tells Apple not to buy Chinese memory chips

The Trump administration does not want Apple Inc. to source memory chips from the Chinese mainland, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Friday. Following a tour of an Apple manufacturing facility in Houston, Lutnick said that although Apple might still do so, the administration does not favor the move, adding that there have to be “other solutions to the memory issue, but it’s not great American companies using Chinese memory.” He confirmed that the stance had been communicated to Apple. The tech giant has been testing memory chips produced by Chinese manufacturers CXMT Corp. and Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd., sources said.