US senators send an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook; say: We urge Apple to abandon any effort to…

A bipartisan group of US senators has written to Apple CEO Tim Cook asking the company to walk away from Chinese memory chips altogether—not just in devices sold in America, but in every Apple product sold anywhere in the world. The letter, led by New York Democrat Chuck Schumer and Indiana Republican Jim Banks, names two suppliers: ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC). Both sit on the Pentagon’s 1260H list of Chinese military companies. Both were reinstated on that list last month after briefly vanishing from it in February, a disappearance that reportedly annoyed the White House enough to get them put back.The senators want Cook to commit, in writing, that neither supplier’s memory will end up inside an Apple device.