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ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is a Chinese DRAM chipmaker based in Hefei, positioned as a domestic alternative to Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron.
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Samsung Electronics is expected to post 108.1 trillion won of third-quarter operating profit, nearly nine times last year's, in guidance due Thursday. With foundry, chip design and phones all losing money, that figure now moves with memory prices and the won.
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Micron's new lawsuit says YMTC built its patents on Micron know-how, and it names eight former Micron engineers who became inventors on them. If a court accepts that, YMTC's infringement suits against Micron turn first on who owns the patents.
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Cambricon fell 5.7% and SMIC 3.6% on September 27 against a 2% drop in the CSI 300, as reports said the US may ease limits on Nvidia's H200 chips. If buyers can get American chips, the two stocks depend on how firmly Beijing enforces its preference for local suppliers.
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Lutnick says Washington is "not in favor" of Apple buying CXMT DRAM or YMTC NAND, per Crypto Briefing. Apple reportedly has until August 21 to commit, with AI demand already lifting memory prices.
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Commerce Secretary Lutnick told the Wall Street Journal on 14 August that he had put it to Apple "plainly". No rule stops the purchase, and a Senate deadline falls on 21 August.
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Three down sessions took the stock back toward what a Chinese listing normally does on day one. The valuation it is falling from has barely moved.
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The Section 1260H label leaves American firms free to buy CXMT chips, so what the lawsuit really contests is the political cost to customers like Apple, at a moment when the big three hold 90% of DRAM revenue.
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Fortune has the stock down as much as 10%, to about HK$44, valuing the fast-fashion group near Ralph Lauren, in the same season Shanghai handed CXMT a 466% first day and Unitree about 629%.
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China's dominant DRAM maker is preparing to make NAND too, in the memory segment that got the least new capacity spending, and analysts do not expect the shortage there to ease until the second half of 2027.
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China's largest DRAM maker has two 24-gigabit LPDDR5X parts in mass production and says the platform behind them matches the industry's most advanced nodes. The only measurements behind that claim are CXMT's own.
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Changxin Memory says its fifth-generation platform is in mass production at 11.95nm with at least 50 per cent more dies per wafer. Both of the figures that would let a buyer price it come from the company.
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ChangXin Memory has announced 24-Gbit LPDDR5X products. Its own timeline runs from LPDDR5X mass production in May 2025 to LPDDR6 mass production by September 2026, on a target of about 300,000 wafers a month.
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South Korea's revised Criminal Act took effect on September 13 and drops the requirement that a leak benefit an enemy state, so conduct police logged a record 33 times last year now carries three to 30 years.
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The three-year treasury yield closed at 4.014% and WTI at $102.48, the KOSPI gave up the 7,000 level, and the money leaving Korea's safest funds landed in brokerage accounts with margin debt already at 32.36 trillion won.
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ChangXin's second-quarter margin on commodity DDR5 came in above both Korean makers, in a Nihon Keizai Shimbun analysis, a year after the Chinese firm was losing money on the same product. The price behind it was set by SK hynix and Samsung.
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Investors bid the last of China's four little dragons of AI chipmaking up 206 per cent on its Shanghai debut, chasing the nearly 60 per cent of the domestic AI accelerator market that foreign suppliers held in 2025.
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Counterpoint puts Micron a single point behind SK Hynix in Q2 2026, but the $2.59bn revenue gap narrowed mostly because SK Hynix grew at two-thirds of the market's rate, and the makers outside the Big Three grew faster than either.
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Huawei now coordinates China's lithography effort, according to the Financial Times, and the flagship tool it is coordinating uses projection optics that Zeiss says it sells only to ASML, which bounds how fast substitution can actually arrive.
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A deposit at customs bills the importer, and Chinese memory makers are the first to feel it. The qualification calendar runs months, so they cannot buy their way out of it this quarter.
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Cryptorank's count puts real-world-asset perpetuals above $2T for the third quarter, up from $1.2T, and the September fee take of about 1.8 basis points says the users are traders rather than allocators.
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