Apple is exploring new sources for iPhone memory chips, looking at Chinese providers for the first time, to diversify risks of disruption. – AFP PHOTO
Apple Inc. is exploring new sources of the memory chips that go into iPhones, including potentially its first Chinese provider, after a production disruption at a key Japanese partner exposed the risks to its global supply.
It’s considering expanding a roster of suppliers that already includes Micron Technology Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. after Kioxia Holdings Corp. lost a batch of output to contamination in February, people familiar with the matter said.
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