From article:
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urges iPhone maker to find other
solutions to AI-driven chip supply crunch
Reality translation:
Commerce Secretary urges iPhone maker to keep US RAM supplies depleted
so that US RAM prices will remain at historical/ever-increasing highs.
actual translation - time to bring another envelope to mar-a-largo, elections are approaching :)
For those who receive WSJ's passive-aggressive response to privacy measures - WSJ's "Access is temporarily restricted" page [where temporarily = after heat death of universe]
https://archive.ph/lXFW1
Just as a fun thought exercise: let’s say you’re a Chinese state actor, you got Apple to buy your RAM. How could you possibly exploit this? I’m drawing a blank.
The threat is not technical but systemic. It's about supply chain dependencies and further empowering a cutout of the Chinese military apparatus.
With current US administration? Do nothing, win.
Do capitalism to the benefit of society. Bam. Gottem.