Apple Playing With Fire Using Chinese Chips, Rubio Says

A US senator said that Apple is “playing with fire” with its plans to use Chinese semiconductors for its iPhone 14, the Financial Times reported.

Apple knows the security risks posed by China’s Yangtze Memory Technologies Co, Republican vice-chair of the Senate intelligence committee Marco Rubio said in the report. “We cannot allow Chinese companies beholden to the Communist Party into our telecommunications networks and millions of Americans’ iPhones,” he was quoted as saying.

Read the full report: Financial Times.

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Alfie Habershon

Alfie is a Reporter at Asia Financial. He previously lived in Mumbai reporting on India's economy and healthcare for data journalism initiative IndiaSpend, as well as having worked for London based Tortoise Media.