Apple told the U.S. lawmakers just 3 days ago it's not using flash memory from YMTC, a Chinese state-owned enterprise based in Wuhan, China, and has only considered using YMTC memory for units to be shipped to China in future.
A Chinese tech reviewer sourced iPhone 14 units from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, S. Korea, and Japan and found chips bearing YMTC part numbers on all of them.
Apple appears to have blatantly lied to U.S. Senators somehow believing they will be allowed to get away with it.
I mean congress is full of dumb boomers that are paid off by apple. So it doesn’t really matter
Jason Carter
how exactly did they lie? they have 2 skus, one for the USA and one for the rest of the world. If they use different chips here in the US, then they clearly told no lie technically.
Thomas Wright
>Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, S. Korea, and Japan same country, next thread please
Blake Wood
>Apple appears to have blatantly lied to U.S. Senators somehow believing they will be allowed to get away with it. they will kek, boomers think smartphones arent computers
Hunter Lopez
>and has only considered using YMTC memory for units to be shipped to China >units to be shipped to China >units from Mainland China Gee, I wonder why he got the YTMND chips or whatever they're called.
Alexander Cox
Go ahead US gov tell apple they can't do something. They are literally spying on the entire world for you. The US gov will have a public tizzy and fine Apple but it'll be quickly reinvested as a grant and back to business as usual.
Alexander Cruz
>Apple appears to have blatantly lied to U.S. Senators somehow believing they will be allowed to get away with it. based apple
Carter Gutierrez
why is the picture in chinese? obviously iphones made with parts not allowed in the US are going to be sold in china, if it's cheaper. don't chinese iphones have chinese spyware too?
Cameron King
Lol here comes flashgate. Rampant NAND failure inbound.
Aaron Turner
So the technical advisors to the US Senators and their relevant subcommittees think that NAND chips can hijack a smartphone and phone home without anyone catching on?
Dominic Perez
No, they just want the flash memory fab that China put tens of billions dollars building to go out of business. There is a lot of suspicion that YMTC used Micron's trade secrets relayed to them by former Micron employees based in Taiwan, but the U.S. authorities can't verify it without going into YMTC fabs to gather evidence, and they obviously don't have jurisdiction to investigate in China.
