Tech war: China says Micron chips pose ‘severe cybersecurity risks’, effectively banning the sale of its products
- The US chip maker failed a cybersecurity review, making its products prohibited for sale to China’s critical information infrastructure operators
- The ruling will effectively erase a market that contributed about 11 per cent of Micron’s total revenue of US$30.8 billion in 2022
Che Pan in Beijing
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Published: 7:00am, 22 May, 2023
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China can probably make high-end memory chips.
Or they can get it from somewhere else.
Micron was behind that bill directly, the Chinese gave back a middle finger.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/business/economy/us-china-biden-security.html
On Thursday, Congress passed a military bill including a provision that will prevent the U.S. government from purchasing or using semiconductors made by Y.M.T.C. and two other Chinese chip makers, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation and ChangXin Memory Technologies, because of their reported links to Chinese state security and intelligence organizations.