Apple is requesting permission from the Trump administration to purchase memory chips from China. Following the 2026 memory squeeze, which increased component costs and drove price rises across some of its hardware range, Apple is considering that possibility.
Washington has refrained from putting China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) on the Commerce Department’s Entity List, despite the company’s inclusion on a Pentagon list of Chinese military enterprises released on January 7, 2025. On June 25, Apple increased the price of MacBooks, iPads, and other gadgets after declaring that it could no longer bear the rising expenses of memory and storage associated with the expansion of AI data centers.
In an attempt to offset costs resulting from a severe scarcity of memory chips and storage components, Apple increased the prices of its Mac computers, iPads, home appliances, and Vision Pro headset this week. The business had warned last month that as the year went on, supply shortages would probably get worse. The technology industry has been affected by the wider memory shortage, which has led to manufacturers raising costs and reducing production.
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