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

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10 pointsbookofjoe8 comments

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 :)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-china-memory-chip-plan-57773a...

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.

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

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.

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