Apple seeks new vendors for memory chips for iPhones

Apple is planning to identify new vendors for supplying memory chips used in its iPhones, including a potentially first Chinese supplier, Bloomberg News report said.
Japan-based Kioxia — a main supplier of flash memory chips to Apple — reported a contamination last month at two of its manufacturing facilities, resulting into reduction in production.

Apple is testing sample NAND flash memory chips by Chinese semiconductor company Yangtze Memory Technologies.

Earlier this month, Foxconn, another key Apple supplier, suspended its Shenzhen operations due to a spike in COVID-19 cases.