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WSJ reports Apple is qualifying chips from China's largest memory maker, ChangXin Memory Technologies, for some China sold iPhones and MacBooks as the AI driven memory squeeze forces broader supply chain diversification.
This is a same-day development update on the AI memory bottleneck context established earlier today by Type0. Apple is testing memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies, China's largest memory chipmaker by market value, for use in some China-sold iPhones and MacBooks, according to a Wall Street Journal report carried by Reuters on Sunday.
The WSJ said Apple held early talks with CXMT about supplying components for some China-market devices. Both Apple and CXMT declined to comment, and Reuters said it could not independently verify the report.
HP and Acer have already begun using CXMT memory chips in devices sold outside the U.S. to ease similar supply shortages, a peer signal that qualification is underway industry-wide. Separately, Reuters reported last week that CXMT is considering building a second memory-chip plant in Beijing to expand capacity.
The report says the use case is limited to China-sold devices, which keeps the story as buyer-agency under supply pressure rather than a decoupling signal. Whether the qualification spreads to U.S.-sold Apple products, and whether CXMT adds the second Beijing plant, are the two watch items.