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China's DRAM maker CXMT prepares $4.3 billion IPO amid AI-driven memory boom
Why Apple wants Chinese memory it can't use
The Korea Herald13h ago
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When Apple raised MacBook and iPad prices by up to 20 percent last month, wiping $263 billion off its market value in a day, it blamed "unsustainable" memory prices. Then it went to Washington to ask permission to buy DRAM from a Chinese company sitting on a Pentagon blacklist. Kim Yang-paeng, a semiconductor researcher at the state-run Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade, does not think Apple actually wants to buy these chips. He thinks it wants to be seen trying. "From the consu
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