Beijing Bans Chinese Companies From Using USA's Micron Chips In Critical Infrastructure

China’s cybersecurity regulator has banned Chinese firms from buying chips from US memory manufacturer Micron Technology. Per Reuters, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said Sunday it found that the company’s products pose “significant security risks” to critical Chinese information infrastructure, including state-owned banks and telecom operators. The ban comes after China announced a review of Micron imports in late March in a move that was seen at the time as retaliation for sanctions Washington has imposed on Chinese chipmakers in recent years.
Idaho-based Micron is the largest memory manufacturer in the US. The Chinese market accounts for about 10 percent of the firm’s annual revenue, though the majority of companies importing Micron products into China are manufacturers making devices for sale in other parts of the world. According to The Wall Street Journal, the CAC’s ban does not apply to non-Chinese firms in China. “We are evaluating the conclusion and assessing our next steps,” Micron told the outlet. “We look forward to continuing to engage in discussions with Chinese authorities.” The CAC did not say what Micron products would be affected by the ban, nor did it share details on what security concerns it had with the company’s chips.


The ban is the latest development in an escalating feud over semiconductor technology between the US and China. In recent months, the Biden administration has moved to restrict its rival’s access to advanced chipmaking equipment. In January, US, Dutch and Japanese officials agreed to tighten export controls on lithography machines from ASL, Nikon and Tokyo Electron. As The Journal notes, China has been trying to find ways to hit back at the US. Micron was an easy target given that most Chinese companies can turn to suppliers like South Korea’s SK Hynix to make up for any shortfall left by a ban.

And that is how Samsung secured the Chip bag. Geopolitics can be good, maybe really too good for business, but then can be terrible, look at what happened to Huawei phones’ infrastructure.

Huawei and ZTE we literally crippled by the US. Not a good thing

Huawei’s new communications equipment only. Otherwise Huawei is big in the US mbaya sana, start with the software bit, and cloud services.

Huawei is not big in US check your facts again.

ZTE had mince phones and Modems

When you look at Huawei from a consumer products and smartphone perspective, it makes a lot of sense to argue the way you do, and it is supposed to work like that. Huawei, just like Bill gates, yes the pedo, understood that the money is in the IP. Intellectual Property. They’ve used subsidiaries, sometimes they use their own Name HUAWEI, and other forms of alliances, to own, host, and run SAP, Oracle, and related softwares. Hell, they’re now splitting services with Amazon cloud AWS, Ukielewa Oracle-Java relationship, ndio utaona how big Huawei is. All this info is in the public domain, just Google it.

Now i get you. Do you remember when the daughter of Ren zhengfei was arrested in Canada? Did you follow the story? Its because of what you are explaining. Huawei had played the game for a long time. The americans were not exactly sleeping there is little that happened that they were not aware. They crippled huawei like i said earlier to an extend of paying companies in their sphere of influence to decomission telcom equipment already installed on their networks. Some of this info is not in the public domain.

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