Apple freezes plan to use China's YMTC chips amid political pressure

Company previously planned to put Chinese-made memory in some iPhones

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U.S. pressure has disrupted Apple's plans for using chips from China's Yangtze Memory Technology Co. (Source photo by Ken Kobayashi)

CHENG TING-FANG, LAULY LI and YIFAN YU, Nikkei staff writers

TAIPEI/PALO ALTO, U.S. -- Apple has put on hold plans to use memory chips from China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) in its products, multiple sources told Nikkei Asia.

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