WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Jim Banks issued the following press release:
Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) led colleagues in sending a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook urging the company to commit that no memory chips produced by Chinese military-linked companies ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) or Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC) will be used in any Apple product sold anywhere in the world. The senators also demand answers about Apple's reported testing of Chinese memory chips and its alleged efforts to lobby the Trump administration against national security restrictions on Chinese semiconductor suppliers.
In the letter, the senators warn that the Department of War has designated both CX...