Apple pauses plans to implement China's YMTC chips amid new U.S. export regulations
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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has paused plans to use memory chips from China's Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) in its products, Nikkei reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The U.S. technology firm had originally planned to use YMTC'S NAND flash memory chips as early as this year, exclusively in its iPhones sold in the Chinese market.

Apple (AAPL) was eventually looking to purchase up to 40% of the chips needed for all iPhones from YMTC, the news outlet added.
The move comes after U.S. imposed tighter export controls against Chinese technology companies last week, adding YMTC and 30 other Chinese firms to a list of entities that U.S. officials have been unable to inspect, starting a 60 day-clock that could trigger much tougher penalties.
YMTC is also under a U.S. Commerce Department investigation over whether it violated Washington's export rules by selling chips to blacklisted Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies.
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