China’s Micron Probe Is Fresh Offensive in Chip War With US

China has opened a new front in its escalating tech battle with the US. It’s launching a cybersecurity review of imports from America’s largest memory chip maker Micron. Peter Elstrom reports on Bloomberg Television.
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[wanderingquestions]

Look more like payback to me. If the USA can dish it out, the USA should be able to take it.

[fatshrimp]

Great. Finally an offensive instead of just defending. 👍

[JillValentinova]

Wow, China learned some tricks from the US.

[VL-inquisitor]

I am sure Micron will be treated fairly and lawfully by the Chinese authority - which resembles exactly the way Huawei has been dealt with by the US authority through these years.

[xgguo]

It should be called a reaction to what US has been doing to China Semiconductor Industry and high tech，using the similar "National Security" logic. If Huawei made 5G mobile phone causes security risk to US, logically DRAM made by Micron is also a threat of national security to China.

[mysticalwind]

I am surprise that China's patience lasted so long. The Chinese had been indicating all along very clearly that it was willing to meet the American's half way on many issues and work them out. But the US kept issuing sanctions after sanctions. I am still hoping that China is still open to work things out with the US. In my opinion it is really up to the US how much more confrontation and escalation of hostilities there is to come.

[nikolas_]

When China said' I wasnt scared enough for ur bullied', then US melt down & said 'u r so hostile to me, I was a humble & nice person ever to u, wait & see I am gonna ask my friends G7 facing u'....

[douglaswong]

Tic for TAC
Every items will be a national security risk
The fun just stared

[ianthesiow]

❤😅The USA America calls it "Liberation" instead of "Invasion". That was what US call it in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and the list goes on... Why the double standard? Confused... Please enlighten. Genuine question...


Instances of the United States "liberated" or overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)

China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009 *
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *
2014 - 2022 - 6 countries yet to verify.
Pakistan 2022 *
Haiti 2022 *

[htau]

Smart move, China, smart move! Keep it up!

[georgekalasiri]

memory chips will be the breaking point, because technologigcally they are less advanceed / complicated, and china already had some competitive domestic manufacturers to fall back on.

[mokulashi]

Offense? It's national security 😂😂

[刚-oh]

China can make memory chips now, so no more American companies needed... Micron chips are 3 times more expensive anyway... YMTC memory chips have same specs. next on the line, Nvidia Qualcom, AMD, Apple, Tesla.

[guanda]

No worries, US can always restrict Hynix and Samsung from selling chips to China with the security act.

[keanboonteh]

Congratulations to Samsung & SK ... Your competitors has been hit...

[AlohaSteve]

Shifting to other memory chips would take years... there is only a limited amount of Capacity at Samsung.

[phongy]

if american could do on others, why not others do it on american? ...

[greatasia]

Chinese can product 80% of the chips currently being used globally. Due to the attacks from the USA, Chinese have started to massively expand their chips manufacturing capacity. Micron and those wafer fabs can survive if the prices on 80% of their chips drop by 30% to 80%?
I'm sure you know that it's very expansive to run wafer fabrication plants, right?

You need to know what you're talking about!
Ha ha ha!

[MarekKolenda-lgix]

1 million protesters coming to NY for defending Trump

[mayleetan]

If US companies are so concern on Micron, why are they not concern on US sanctions?