
Apple Wants to Buy Computer Chips From a Blacklisted Chinese Company
Apple is asking the U.S. government for permission to buy memory chips—the parts that store data temporarily—from a Chinese company the Pentagon has flagged as a security risk. Those chips make up about 10–15% of what it costs to build an iPhone. The company's chips are cheaper than rivals. The tension: do we restrict China's chip industry or let companies save money?
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