There's a bunch of chinese DRAM companies currently playing catchup to get closer to modern densities. Could Apple buy one of those? I'm guessing there would be regulatory hurdles to that on both sides of the pond.
replyApple never bought a manufacturer, or built such capabilities.
replyThey buy and build manufacturing capacity, and there’s also a huge shortage in that today.
China is playing a totally different game here.
replyCan a US company by a Chinese company... no. Number one, China won't let them. Number 2, China is building up these companies as a strategic reserve against the US/Korea for when they eventually go to war. So, yea, eventually the US will ban any imports of memory from those companies which would turn it into a toxic asset for Apple.
Which is funny, since until relatively recently DRAM was what you produced in fabs with processes that weren't competitive enough for CPUs anymore.
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