Apple reportedly testing RAM chips from US-blocked Chinese company

Apple wants US approval to buy chips from CXMT as memory prices quadruple

Apple has been lobbying Commerce Department officials and other members of the Trump administration for approval to buy memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies, according to the Financial Times. CXMT is China’s largest DRAM manufacturer and sits on the Pentagon’s list of companies with alleged ties to the Chinese military. Six people familiar with the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Taiwan Busts Alleged Underground Network Smuggling Nvidia AI Servers to China

The Keelung District Prosecutors Office in Taiwan is investigating a major smuggling case involving Supermicro servers equipped with Nvidia’s high-end chips, which were allegedly diverted to China. Authorities have conducted two raids and detained six suspects, including a Supermicro sales manager and senior executives of listed company Qyun Technology. An expanded investigation has found that []

SK Hynix is set for the biggest foreign listing in U.S. history as it debuts on the Nasdaq

The South Korean memory chipmaker priced 177.9 million ADRs at 149 each, topping Alibaba's 2014 U.S. offering

DeepSeek developing its own artificial intelligence chip — Reuters

The company previously used chips from American Nvidia and Chinese Huawei to train and operate its models

Major RAM manufacturers sued for manipulating prices and demand

A new lawsuit alleges that Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron colluded to artificially manufacture the ongoing RAM shortage.

Tech giants hit with lawsuit alleging collusion over RAM prices

Three major tech companies are being sued over allegations that they’ve been colluding to drive up the prices of RAM. In a class-action lawsuit filed in the California Northern District Court, 14 individuals and three businesses accuse the world’s largest RAM manufacturers in the world — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — of producing artificial []

US lawsuit accuses Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron of worsening the RAM crisis by fixing memory prices and supply

Chip makers Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have been accused of fixing RAM prices and supply, thereby exacerbating the effects of the ongoing memory crisis, in a US class action lawsuit. According to the suit, the trio have co-ordinated their pivots from focusing on making the sort of RAM consumer tech needs to the high bandwidth memory typically used by AI datacentres, with no-one stepping up to take advantage of fulfilling the demand such moves have left for non-astronomically priced memory on the consumer side. Read more

(LEAD) SK hynix debuts on Nasdaq to raise US$26.5 bln amid soaring AI demand

SEOUL, July 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korean chip giant SK hynix Inc. on Friday debut...

Why China is finally letting AI firms buy the Nvidia H200

For months, the United States and China have been locked in an unusual stand-off over cutting-edge chips – the building blocks of the artificial intelligence industry. In early 2026, Washington took the rare step of approving Nvidia’s H200 graphics processing unit for export to China, but Beijing has deliberately restricted Chinese firms from purchasing them as it pursues a tech self-sufficiency drive. Now, however, China’s stance is beginning to change, as the government plans to let selected...

Why Micron Stock Just Dropped

Are cheap Chinese chips coming to steal Micron's market share -- and profits?

SK Hynix raises $26.5B in record US share offering

South Korean chipmaker prices 177.9M American Depositary Shares at 149 each

Taiwanese Authorities Reportedly Raid Supermicro in Move That Could Signal Big Change For AI Chip Exporters

It's not against the law in Taiwan to export high-end chips to China. But it sounds like Taiwan will now enforce U.S. law.

RAM Price-Fixing Lawsuit Explained: Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron Have Been Here Before

Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are being sued for price-fixing RAM. Two of them have pleaded guilty to almost the exact same thing before.

How South Korea's SK Hynix Became Central to the AI Boom

SK Hynix may not be a household name, but the South Korean memory chipmaker is one of the top names in the hottest corner of the stock market. Ahead of its US listing, Winnie Hsu looks at how the once-embattled company became a tech darling. (Source: Bloomberg)

AI breaks Korea memory's boom-bust cycle: CLSA

South Korea's memory chip industry is moving beyond its traditional boom-and-bust cycle as artificial intelligence demand pushes major customers to lock in long-term supply at high prices, according to CLSA. Memory has long been highly cyclical: profits rise when supply is tight and fall when capacity catches up. But the rapid growth of high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, and AI servers is changing that pattern, said Sanjeev Rana, head of Korea research at CLSA. The fact that major memory customers

China says no to H200 chips

François Vadrot and Fausto Giudice put this introduction together and published it in English, French and Spanish. Its message: Nvidia came to Beijing to sell its H200 chips; China chose Huawei and technological autonomy. An excellent Asia Times article by Tony Pan (“Nvidia flew to Beijing with Trump to sell . . . Continue reading China says no to H200 chips at Workers.org

Apple Testing Banned CXMT DRAM Chips to Fight Rising MacBook Prices

Apple is testing DRAM chips from blacklisted Chinese maker CXMT to fight soaring memory costs caused by the global artificial intelligence boom. The post Apple Testing Banned CXMT DRAM Chips to Fight Rising MacBook Prices first appeared on iPhone in Canada.

Taiwan Raided Super Micro Over Nvidia Chip Smuggling. The Charge: Document Forgery.

Taiwan prosecutors raided 12 locations tied to Super Micro Computer, Albatron Technology, and Chief Telecom on June 29, targeting a 2.5 billion Nvidia chip-smuggling scheme. The problem: Taiwan has no law that makes exporting AI chips to China a crime.

Apple reportedly lobbies US for approval to source DRAM from China’s CXMT

According to sources, Apple is reportedly lobbying the US government for approval to purchase DRAM chips from Chinese memory manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT). Apple has been in discussions with the White House in an effort to secure permission to source DRAM from CXMT, aiming to ease financial pressure caused by continuously rising memory procurement []

Chinese drug manufacturer with CCP ties imported unauthorized GLP-1 drug ingredients

Federal investigators say that a Chinese drug manufacturer, previously on the Food and Drug Administration’s list of preapproved foreign companies allowed to import GLP-1 ingredients, was able to bring in batches of the weight loss drug from an unauthorized supplier and introduce the substance of unknown origin into the U.S. drug supply. In September 2025, []

Form 144 Dell Technologies Inc. For: 25 June

Form 144 Dell Technologies Inc. For: 25 June

WALOVI and Hong Xin Da Seal Strategic Local-Channel Deal for International Cans in Singapore

On June 15–16, the 2026 Guangzhou Products Go Global Guangzhou Premium Brands into ASEAN ...

AI Chips Worth $13 Million Seized At Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur Airport

Malaysia imposed export controls last year on the movement of high-performance chips of US origin, following pressure from the United States to stem the flow to China of chips crucial for the...

Global Market Today: Asian stocks fall on Korean chip selloff, oil dips

Asian markets tumbled as chipmaker stocks experienced a sharp decline, sparking fears the AI rally might have overheated. Concerns also surfaced over Apple's potential chip purchases from China, impacting major players like Samsung and SK Hynix. Meanwhile, comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh eased inflation worries, suggesting no immediate interest rate hikes. Positive signs emerged from US manufacturing, and geopolitical discussions offered a glimmer of optimism.