Apple testing banned vendor RAM is a Band-Aid, not a cure

Apple's testing of memory chips from CXMT, a supplier black-listed by the U.S. government, could help ease the RAM pricing crisis. It's nowhere near enough to solve the problem.
A Samsung LPDDR5X memory chip - Image Credit: Samsung
In late June, Apple reportedly asked the Trump administration to allow it to buy RAM chips from a supplier in China that the U.S. had blacklisted. As Cupertino waits on Washington, it is allegedly testing out the memory from the blackballed company.According to two so