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Research Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientific research Chips Amazon designs custom AI chips for Echo and Fire TV Breaking Anthropic launches Claude Science, AI workbench integrating 60+ scientific databases for drug discovery Market OpenAI proposes 5% U.S. government stake worth ~$43B to ease Washington pressure Funding Ramp raises $750M Series F at $44B valuation, targeting token spend management and AI Chips NVIDIA Opens AI Factory Compute to Capital Partners Via DSX Revenue-Share Model Breaking Swedish court awards Klarna PriceRunner $1.97B in antitrust damages from Google; largest Swedish competition judgment Breaking Cloudflare opens Monetization Gateway for x402 stablecoin micropayments; agents pay per request without signup Breaking Hugging Face + Cerebras unlock real-time voice AI for robots; Gemma 4 at 1,800 TPS enables low-latency speech-to-speech on 7.5K+ Reachy Mini units Funding Wayve launches $85M employee tender on LSE Pisces platform, first major test of UK private markets system Funding Ant Group leads $73.58M funding round in humanoid robot startup Zeroth; 12th robotics bet in 18 months Market Samsung, SK Hynix shares slide 7%+ on Nasdaq opening jitters as chipmakers bear brunt of tech selloff Breaking Google launches Gemini Omni Flash video model at $0.10/sec and Nano Banana 2 Lite image model into GA Chips Tesla hires Gary Jiang, 17-year Intel veteran, as Director of Terafab chip project Market Meta launches cloud business to sell excess AI compute capacity; stock +8% Market NVIDIA projects $1 trillion AI infrastructure demand through 2027; doubles prior forecast Chips Samsung HBM4 surpasses $1B in sales within 4 months; projects $10B full-year run rate Funding Oxmiq Labs raises $35M Series A for licensable GPU IP, eyes Arm-like architecture Research ChatGPT crosses 1 billion monthly active users, fastest consumer app milestone in history Chips NVIDIA and TSMC mark first US-made Blackwell wafer in Phoenix, plan $500B infrastructure spend over 4 years Research Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientific research Chips Amazon designs custom AI chips for Echo and Fire TV Breaking Anthropic launches Claude Science, AI workbench integrating 60+ scientific databases for drug discovery Market OpenAI proposes 5% U.S. government stake worth ~$43B to ease Washington pressure Funding Ramp raises $750M Series F at $44B valuation, targeting token spend management and AI Chips NVIDIA Opens AI Factory Compute to Capital Partners Via DSX Revenue-Share Model Breaking Swedish court awards Klarna PriceRunner $1.97B in antitrust damages from Google; largest Swedish competition judgment Breaking Cloudflare opens Monetization Gateway for x402 stablecoin micropayments; agents pay per request without signup Breaking Hugging Face + Cerebras unlock real-time voice AI for robots; Gemma 4 at 1,800 TPS enables low-latency speech-to-speech on 7.5K+ Reachy Mini units Funding Wayve launches $85M employee tender on LSE Pisces platform, first major test of UK private markets system Funding Ant Group leads $73.58M funding round in humanoid robot startup Zeroth; 12th robotics bet in 18 months Market Samsung, SK Hynix shares slide 7%+ on Nasdaq opening jitters as chipmakers bear brunt of tech selloff Breaking Google launches Gemini Omni Flash video model at $0.10/sec and Nano Banana 2 Lite image model into GA Chips Tesla hires Gary Jiang, 17-year Intel veteran, as Director of Terafab chip project Market Meta launches cloud business to sell excess AI compute capacity; stock +8% Market NVIDIA projects $1 trillion AI infrastructure demand through 2027; doubles prior forecast Chips Samsung HBM4 surpasses $1B in sales within 4 months; projects $10B full-year run rate Funding Oxmiq Labs raises $35M Series A for licensable GPU IP, eyes Arm-like architecture Research ChatGPT crosses 1 billion monthly active users, fastest consumer app milestone in history Chips NVIDIA and TSMC mark first US-made Blackwell wafer in Phoenix, plan $500B infrastructure spend over 4 years

Market Saturday, June 27, 2026 at 08:03 PM

Apple lobbies Trump admin to buy memory from blacklisted CXMT as component costs soar

Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for approval to purchase memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), a Chinese company on the Pentagon's 1260H blacklist due to alleged ties to the People's Liberation Army, the Financial Times reported June 26. The effort involves outreach to the Commerce Department and senior Trump administration officials, seeking a guarantee CXMT won't be moved to the more restrictive Entity List that would impose licensing requirements.

Apple raised prices on MacBooks, iPads, and Vision Pro by $100–$500 this week after CEO Tim Cook acknowledged the company can no longer absorb ballooning memory and storage component costs. CXMT, which reported 700% year-over-year revenue growth in Q1 2026, offers conventional DRAM at lower prices than the dominant players—Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron—whose capacity is consumed by AI data center buildout and HBM (high-bandwidth memory) for accelerators.

The move underscores the tightness of the global memory market driven by AI infrastructure demand. Micron has pushed Congress to restrict US company dealings with CXMT on national security grounds; Apple previously explored CXMT's predecessor (YMTC) in 2022 but abandoned the plan after congressional opposition. This time, Apple is betting the cost crisis justifies political risk.

Sources

Primary source
9to5mac.com
“Apple lobbying Trump admin for CXMT approval; raised MacBook/iPad prices $100-$500 this week; CXMT on Pentagon 1260H list”
cryptobriefing.com
“CXMT 700% YoY revenue growth Q1 2026; global memory shortage driven by AI sector demand”
thenextweb.com
“1260H listing signals Pentagon military ties but does not block private transactions; Entity List would impose licensing requiring government approval”