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Symbolic image: Apple tests Chinese memory chips for iPhones and MacBooksSymbolic image

Apple tests Chinese memory chips for iPhones and MacBooks

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Apple is testing memory chips from the Chinese manufacturer CXMT, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. An industry-wide shortage of memory chips is pushing costs up.

According to the report, published on Sunday, 9 August, the tests cover chips for iPhones and MacBooks; Reuters summarised the Journal's account the same day. None of the available reports puts a figure on volumes or timing, or says how far the qualification has advanced. Sourcing a core component from a Chinese manufacturer would mark a shift for a company whose China ties Washington has been scrutinising. Handelsblatt, which carried the story for German readers, kept the qualifier 'apparently' in its headline.

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All three available reports go back to the same Wall Street Journal item; neither Reuters nor Handelsblatt adds independent reporting, and no Chinese outlet among the sources addresses CXMT's role.

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