U.S. Urges Apple Not to Buy Chinese Memory Chips

10 pointsposted 14 hours ago
by bookofjoe

8 Comments

WarOnPrivacy

13 hours ago

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.

bdangubic

13 hours ago

actual translation - time to bring another envelope to mar-a-largo, elections are approaching :)

WarOnPrivacy

13 hours ago

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

xenospn

13 hours ago

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.

amazingman

6 hours ago

The threat is not technical but systemic. It's about supply chain dependencies and further empowering a cutout of the Chinese military apparatus.

rasz

6 hours ago

With current US administration? Do nothing, win.

cyanydeez

11 hours ago

Do capitalism to the benefit of society. Bam. Gottem.