News China Bans Micron Chips in Wake of Cybersecurity Review

[Admin]

Micron products will be shunned by Chinese IT infrastructure businesses as they "pose a major security risk," concluded a state review.

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[USAFRet]

Awright.....preemptive warning....No politics, please.

 

[mcdonnell155]

China has their own crypto hashes, it's probably something like banning vendor regions from hard drives to avoid Stuxnet. That's all...

 

[Math Geek]

interesting way to test the waters for their own homegrown companies. the market is still there and if their own Chinese products can keep up with supply and quality, then they lose nothing by removing a competitor from the market.

not really the best way to deal in a global market, but as noted in the article, it is a bit of "turnabout is fair play" considering how the US has handled their side of things.

 

[bit_user]

Micron's products have relatively serious potential network security issues

Micron makes a lot of products, from NAND and DRAM chips, all the way up to consumer & enterprise/datacenter DIMMs and SSDs. I can see an argument about SSDs maybe posing some kind of security risk, but not the raw chips. This definitely feels vindictive. I guess it's one of the few big US suppliers they can afford to ban (i.e. as opposed to AMD, Intel, or Nvidia).

From what I've heard, Micron didn't even sell that much into China, to begin with.

BTW, Crucial is Micron's brand for consumer products.