China now even less likely to solve Apple’s memory crunch

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One of Apple’s proposed solutions – or at least mitigations – for the memory shortage was to buy RAM from two Chinese companies, CXMT and YMTC. While it was not technically banned from doing so, this would have put it into conflict with the US government, and the idea is now looking even less likely thanks to two deve…