Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief

Two up-and-coming Chinese memory vendors, YMTC and CXMT, could offer customers relief from shortages and skyrocketing prices, but not if US Representatives John Moolenaar (R-MI) and George Whitesides (D-CA) have anything to say about it. In a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick made public on Thursday, the lawmakers urged the Trump administration to tighten restrictions on Chinese memory manufacturers, arguing that purchases of their chips by US companies would undermine Western memory makers and subsidize the People's Liberation Army. Founded in 2016, the companies are relative newcomers to memory manufacturing. CXMT produces dynamic random access memory (DRAM) used in everything from desktops and laptops to smartphones and...

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