Japanese media quoted sources that Apple has suspended the plan for the newly rising NAND Flash storage chip supplier Changjiang Storage Technology to purchase iPhone parts.
According to the Nikkei Chinese website, many relevant persons revealed in an interview that Apple has always plannedOfficially criticized that Apple changed its policy.
A relevant personnel said: "Apple has undergone product verification of the Yangtze River storage, but when the new iPhone began to mass production (listed in September), the storage chip stored in the Yangtze River was officially mass -produced.production line".
Apple and Yangtze River Storage Technology did not comment on this.
NAND Flash chip is an important key component on a variety of electronic products such as smartphones, personal computers and servers.
Introduced by people familiar with the matter, although the products of the Yangtze River Storage Technology are one to two generations behind Samsung Electronics and the United States Meiguang Technology, it is the most leading one of Chinese companies with the strongest technical strength.The purchasing cost of the Yangtze River storage chip will be more than 20 % lower than the purchase of world -class suppliers such as Samsung, Micron, and Kelogang.
On October 7, the U.S. government included the Yangtze River Storage Technology on the grounds of unable to confirm the product's final supplier and use of the product.
Lawyer Harry Clarke, who is familiar with the law of the US export control law, said: "Basically, the procurement parts from the list on the list will not be limited."No U.S. companies can provide design, technology and archives to these companies.
