American Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has asked Apple not to purchase memory chips from China, urging the iPhone maker to find other solutions to the chip shortage and their skyrocketing prices. Lutnick stated this in an exclusive interview with the Wall Street Journal. To help alleviate the supply crisis, Apple is turning to Chinese manufacturers, but “the Trump administration is not in favor of this solution,” Lutnick said after visiting an Apple manufacturing plant in Houston.
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“There must be other solutions to the memory problem, but it is not positive for American companies to use Chinese memory,” he added. Clearly, he said, this message has been conveyed to Apple.
According to sources close to the company, Apple is testing memory chips produced by Chinese companies Cxmt and Yangtze Memory Technologies, in anticipation of a possible integration of these devices into Apple products sold in China. As previously reported by the Wall Street Journal, laptop manufacturers Hp and Acer have started using Cxmt memory chips in devices sold outside the United States.
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Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, Sabih Khan, declined to confirm that Apple was testing Chinese memory chips. But he stated that, given the extent of the chip shortage, “we have to consider all options,” including working with existing suppliers to increase production in the United States.
Although Apple customizes many components inside iPhones, Khan said there is “not much room for customization” for memory, hinting at the possibility that low-quality Chinese memory chips might be used.
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