{
  "id": 19342,
  "url": "https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-true-cost-of-cheap-chips",
  "title": "The True Cost of Cheap Chips",
  "summary": "Given the relentless demand for computing power, electronic components are in scarce supply. Prices for certain memory chips, known as DRAM, have surged by more than 50 percent in a single quarter this year, and have roughly quadrupled since last fall. Because DRAM supply is tight, Apple, Dell, and HP are currently evaluating memory from ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), a company the Pentagon has designated as a Chinese military company. Apple, in particular, has sought assurances from the U",
  "authors": "Faisal Akhter",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "military-security",
  "orgs": "apple",
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-08-13T08:00:29.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-14T05:10:49.168Z",
  "source_slug": "x-war-on-the-rocks",
  "source_name": "War on the Rocks",
  "source_homepage": "https://warontherocks.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19342",
  "original_url": "https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-true-cost-of-cheap-chips",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}