Apple seeks approval to buy chips from blackled Chinese company: Report | Technology News
2 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 30, 2026 09:11 AM Apple is lobing the Trump adminration for clearance to buy memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies, a Chinese company the Pentagon has put on a blackl, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
The iPhone maker has lobbied the White House for approval aimed at easing financial pressure on the company from rising memory chip prices, the newspaper said, citing unnamed sources.
The White House, Apple and CXMT did not respond to requests for comment from Reuters outside business hours.
The lobing push underscores the bind facing major U.S. technology companies as soaring memory chip costs collide with Washington’s national security restrictions on Chinese chipmakers.
Apple approached the Commerce Department more than a month ago and also engaged other adminration officials and allies in Washington, one person told the FT.
CXMT, China’s top memory chipmaker, was designated as a Chinese military company the Defense Department under the Biden adminration. The company, among others, was approved an interagency committee last year for addition to the Commerce Department’s Entity L.
U.S. companies cannot ship goods, software and technology to companies on the l without a license, which is likely to be denied.Story continues below this ad
Apple raised iPad and MacBook prices on Thursday, saying it could no longer shield customers from soaring memory and storage chip costs driven the AI industry’s data center buildout.
