The senators also demand answers about Apple’s reported testing of Chinese memory chips and its alleged efforts to lobby the Trump administration against national security restrictions on Chinese semiconductor suppliers. Apple must reject these PRC suppliers and stand with American workers, American innovation, and America’s national security.” The bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act has spurred a historic build-out of American chip manufacturing, including memory chips, and Apple risks squandering that investment by opening the door to CCP-backed chips over American-made ones.” As the most demanding component buyer in the world, a decision by Apple to procure Chinese memory chips would carry weight well beyond the company’s own purchase orders. Will Apple commit that it will not incorporate CXMT or YMTC memory into any Apple product, whether sold in the United States or abroad?