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  • Apple Wants To Buy Chinese RAM

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Sun Jun 28 00:16:12 2026
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    I wonder what to make of this <https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/apple-reportedly-lobbies-uncle-sam-for-access-to-chinese-memory-chips-tech-giant-allegedly-wants-to-buy-from-blacklisted-cxmt>
    -- Apple is so hard-pressed with component prices that it now wants to
    buy RAM from a Chinese company.

    Unfortunately, the company in question, CXMT, is on the US
    Government’s “1260H list, which still designates it as a Chinese
    military company, and doing business with it would cause major
    reputational damage to an American company”. A.k.a. you’ve got to be
    really desperate to want to deal with that crowd ...

    I had heard about Apple’s price rises, of course, but I didn’t
    appreciate how bad the consequences were for the company:

    Apple is in a dire situation itself, having lost $265 billion off
    its market cap the day it announced price hikes on MacBooks and
    iPads.

    Imagine losing a quarter *trillion* dollars off your market cap, just
    because you had to raise your prices! All I can say is, Wall Street
    doesn’t seem to have much faith in Apple being able to maintain its
    sales volumes ...
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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Sat Jun 27 20:32:16 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-06-27 8:16 p.m., Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    I wonder what to make of this <https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/apple-reportedly-lobbies-uncle-sam-for-access-to-chinese-memory-chips-tech-giant-allegedly-wants-to-buy-from-blacklisted-cxmt>
    -- Apple is so hard-pressed with component prices that it now wants to
    buy RAM from a Chinese company.

    Unfortunately, the company in question, CXMT, is on the US
    Government’s “1260H list, which still designates it as a Chinese
    military company, and doing business with it would cause major
    reputational damage to an American company”. A.k.a. you’ve got to be really desperate to want to deal with that crowd ...

    I had heard about Apple’s price rises, of course, but I didn’t
    appreciate how bad the consequences were for the company:

    Apple is in a dire situation itself, having lost $265 billion off
    its market cap the day it announced price hikes on MacBooks and
    iPads.

    Imagine losing a quarter *trillion* dollars off your market cap, just
    because you had to raise your prices! All I can say is, Wall Street
    doesn’t seem to have much faith in Apple being able to maintain its
    sales volumes ...

    Meanwhile, the price hikes make me feel very good about myself.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    M4 MacBook Air
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