ChangXing Memory Technologies, also known as CXMT, recently filed a lawsuit against the US Pentagon. It claims that the Department of Defense (DOD) had wrongfully designated it as a “Chinese Military Company”.
CXMT vehemently states that all its products are designed are for civilian and commercial purposes, and not for military use. “CXMT is not affiliated with the Chinese military. CXMT designs, produces, and sells its DRAM chips for civilian and commercial use, not for military use.”
The designation as a Beijing-affiliated military company goes all the way back to when the US was still under former President Joe Biden’s administration. As of this publication, the current Trump administration is maintaining that designation.
The memory company hopes that, with the lawsuit, it can overturn the designation and to remove itself from the list. “Since its initial designation in January 2025, CXMT has continuously suffered reputational and commercial harm,” the company said in a statement to Reuters.
The Chinese company has come into prominence in recent months; the memory crisis, affectionately known as the RAM-mageddon, has allowed it to fill the gap created by the situation. For example, consumer memory brand Corsair has started using its memory modules to manufacture its DDR5 sticks. Again, as major global tech giants like NVIDIA, AMD, ARM, and Qualcomm have swept up all current and future memory chip stock for their AI hyperscale endeavours, memory chips in the consumer market segment have been made scarce and, in turn, have caused the price of that once affordable component to skyrocket.
CXMT said that the Pentagon had published a notice in February, saying that the US entity would remove the company’s name from the list, but withdrew that notice on the same day. It also says that the Pentagon’s DOD did not provide an adequate explanation for relisting the company.
(Source: Reuters)
