US lawmakers urge Trump admin to ban Chinese memory chips

Financial Times: In a letter to commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, Moolenaar and Democratic congressman George Whitesides said dependence on Chinese chips would create “an unacceptable risk for US national security, economic security and supply chain security”. 

“Leading Chinese memory manufacturers are all closely intertwined with the Chinese military . . . Every memory purchase by a US company will directly subsidise the People’s Liberation Army’s development of this critical . . . technology” that can be used for military and civilian purposes, Moolenaar wrote in the letter obtained by the FT

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