It’s been a long time since China is working very intensively on the development of its own computer components. They are working on their own processors, graphics cards and storage solutions, among others, to stop depending on the United States. Well, the last movement of the Asian giant has been “illegalize” Micron SSDs.
You should know that Micron is an American company that, above all, manufactures memories for SSDs and graphics cards. Perhaps it sounds more like Crucial, which is its commercial division of storage units and RAM memories. They are solutions of very good quality and are sold very easily.
On the other hand, China is making its own SSDs and RAM memories. Private technology companies in this country have part of the public capitalization. Something that makes the government want to shield this company and “expel” foreign companies.
China issues security advisory against Micron
According to Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) the country’s critical information infrastructure developers “should stop buying Micron products.” This security report is given after analyzing the products sold by the company in the Asian giant.
The background, actually, is in the cold war between the United States and China. Both countries are attacking each other because they seek “world supremacy”, to define it somehow.
The review by the Chinese government ensures that “the Micron products have potential safety issues relatively serious network breaches, posing a significant security risk to the country’s critical information infrastructure supply chain.”
There is no information any of which is the security risk that Micron products would feature. Due to this supposed security risk, the products of Micron and its subsidiary Crucial in the country shortly.
It is highlighted that the CAC affirms that all companies are welcome to the Chinese market, but with a message, since it highlights that must comply with local laws and regulations.
We emphasize, once again, that at no time is it said that the American company Micron has broken the rules.
Currently, China has the companies YMTC and CXMT, which are manufacturers of NAND memories (SSD) and DRAM (RAM memory). They would become Micron’s main competition (and Samsung, Kioxia, WD and others) in the Asian giant. These two Chinese companies, like others, have part of state capitalization.
Political-economic background
Obviously, we cannot ignore the tensions that exist between the United States and China. More recently, China has threatened to invade Taiwan, something that would be very critical for the United States.
You should know that in Taiwan there is the TSMC function, which manufactures the GPUs for NVIDIA cards and processors for Intel and AMD. The invasion would do two things: generate a brutal global shortage of chips and, on the other hand, possible obtaining of privileged information.
In addition, both countries have filed regulations that heavily tax imports of technology. It was during the mandate of Donald Trump when the tariffs on technological products from China began. A problem for Apple, among others, since they assemble their products in China. For example, Foxconn assembles Apple products and is located within the Asian giant.
