In May of last year, the Chinese government banned the sale of Micron chips for government applications, citing unspecified cybersecurity concerns. Fast-forward to 2024, and Micron has announced the grand opening ceremony for a new Chinese chip packaging and testing plant — even though the aforementioned ban has not been lifted.
Amid the ongoing China-U.S. Chip War, China officially banned the sale of Micron chips due to cybersecurity threats supposedly posed by Micron chips. Chinese authorities never provided any compelling evidence of actual misuse, however, leading to the widely held belief that the ban was a retaliatory measure. U.S. trade restrictions placed on Chinese DRAM and NAND companies like YMTC and CXMT gave China more than enough incentive to retaliate, and the Micron ban seemed a primary example.
