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Lawmakers want US government to ban memory chips from China, even in allied supply chains — citing 'unacceptable risk' to national, economic, and supply chain security | Tom's Hardware 90%
By Anton Shilov57%
7/17/2026, 1:05:44 PM
Topics: Semiconductor Industry, US China Relations, Trade Policy, National Security, Supply Chain Management
Keywords: Memory Chips, China, US Government, Ban, Supply Chain, National Security, Economic Security, Cxmt, Ymtc, 3d Nand, Dram, Ddr5, Lpddr5
BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Burden of Proof, Negativity Bias, and Availability Heuristic, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 61% saturation with 175 hits. Analysis detected 1,205 faulty-reasoning hits from 287 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 84.6% and a BS Rank of 90% (1,726 of 17,002 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 89.90% of the article peer group.
Lawmakers want US government to ban memory chips from China, even in allied supply chains — citing 'unacceptable risk' to national, economic, and supply chain security
As Apple and other American companies seek to use memory chips from China-based CXMT and YMTC amid massive supply constraints, U.S. lawmakers want to ban exports of Chinese memory chips to the U.S., citing concerns of weakening domestic and allied suppliers and indirectly supporting the development of 3D NAND and DRAM by Chinese companies, reports the Financial Times.
John Moolenaar, Republican chair of the U.S.
House China Committee, and Democratic Congressman George Whitesides asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to prevent U.S. companies from purchasing semiconductors from businesses included either on the Pentagon's Chinese Military Companies blacklist or the Commerce Department's Entity List.
They also called on the administration to add CXMT to the Entity List and impose additional restrictions on YMTC.
"Dependence on Chinese memory manufacturers creates an unacceptable risk for U.S. national security, economic security, and supply chain security," the letter by Moolenaar and Whitesides reads.
Moolenaar and Whitesides argue that purchases from Chinese memory manufacturers could indirectly support technologies applicable to China's military.
"Leading Chinese memory manufacturers are all closely intertwined with the Chinese military; thus, every memory purchase by a U.S. company will directly subsidize the People’s Liberation Army's development of this critical dual-use technology," the letter stresses.
That said, using Chinese memory now could permanently weaken Western production capacity and leave the West strategically dependent on China for a critical component of AI infrastructure, Moolenaar and Whitesides believe.
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