{"id":374751,"date":"2026-08-10T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=374751"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:40:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:40:41","slug":"apple-reportedly-tests-chinese-memory-chips-for-future-iphones-and-macbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/apple-reportedly-tests-chinese-memory-chips-for-future-iphones-and-macbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple reportedly tests Chinese memory chips for future iPhones and MacBooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple is said to be testing <strong>memory chips<\/strong> from ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT, China\u2019s biggest DRAM maker, for future iPhones and MacBooks. If it moves forward, that would mark a real change from Apple\u2019s usual dependence on Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People familiar with the matter say Apple is evaluating CXMT\u2019s DRAM at a moment when the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/apple-is-raising-prices-tim-cook-now-confirms-memory-costs-are-to-blame\" rel=\"noopener\">memory market is getting tighter<\/a><\/strong>. Apple has good reason to want another qualified supplier: less exposure if one vendor slips, and a stronger hand on both price and volume for a core component used across its products.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That pressure comes from the wider <strong>memory squeeze<\/strong>. Strong data-center demand for high-bandwidth memory is tightening supply and lifting prices for conventional memory along with it, so testing CXMT gives Apple a fallback if its current suppliers keep prioritizing more lucrative product lines or if pricing gets worse.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you follow Apple\u2019s hardware supply chain, this is one to watch. <strong>Politics could still put limits<\/strong> on it, though. Any Apple-CXMT arrangement would almost certainly draw US scrutiny, which makes standard off-the-shelf memory far more likely than deeply customized chips.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So don\u2019t expect to see <strong>CXMT memory in the next iPhone 18 Pro<\/strong>. That product is already deep in development, CXMT\u2019s production lines are said to be booked for the rest of the year, and its pricing may end up similar to, or even higher than, what Samsung and SK Hynix are charging.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s nothing for you to download here yet. Still, after CXMT\u2019s <strong>July 2026 IPO<\/strong> and its push into LPDDR6, Apple\u2019s testing looks a lot like a hedge on future supply flexibility.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is said to be testing memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT, China\u2019s biggest DRAM maker, for future iPhones and MacBooks. If it moves forward, that would mark a real change from Apple\u2019s usual dependence on Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. People familiar with the matter say Apple is evaluating CXMT\u2019s DRAM at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/apple-reportedly-tests-chinese-memory-chips-for-future-iphones-and-macbooks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apple reportedly tests Chinese memory chips for future iPhones and MacBooks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9328,"featured_media":374750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-374751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374752,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374751\/revisions\/374752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374751"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=374751"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=374751"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=374751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}