July 31, 2026

US senators warn Apple not to buy Chinese memory chips to escape the shortage

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Apple wants to buy cheap memory chips from China to ease a shortage. That shortage is already pushing up the price of its gadgets. A bipartisan group of US senators has just told Tim Cook not to. The senators wrote to Cook, urging Apple to drop any p...