(Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. is pressing the White House for approval to purchase memory chips from a blacklisted Chinese company as it grapples to rein in chip costs, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.Most Read from BloombergLutnick Delayed Canada Bridge Debut to Seek Bigger Cut of Toll RevenueIndonesia Opens Door to Dirty Money to Fund Prabowo’s PlansOman Tells Allies Ships Going Through Hormuz May Have to PayApple Shares Sink After Price Hikes Hit iPads and MacsUS Strikes Iran in Response
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June 26 (Reuters) - Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for clearance to buy memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies, a Chinese company the Pentagon has put on a blacklist, the Financial
Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for clearance to buy memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies, a Chinese company the Pentagon has put on a blacklist, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The iPhone maker has lobbied the White House for approval aimed at easing financial pressure on the company from rising memory chip prices, the newspaper said, citing unnamed sources. The White House, Apple and CXMT did not respond to requests for comment from Reuters outside business hours.
Lingyi debuted strongly after raising HK$8.3 billion as it expands into AI hardware and humanoid robotics.
For most of the last decade, one promise held across the technology aisle. You paid a premium for the best-built hardware, and in exchange the number on the price tag held still. That stability was never an accident. It was a product, engineered as carefully as the devices themselves. Tariffs came ...

<body><p>STORY: From Micron's mega market cap to Apple's price hikes...</p><p>...this is the Week in Numbers.</p><p>:: The Week in Numbers</p><p>:: $1.4 trillion.</p><p>About $1.4 trillion was Micron's market cap after it briefly blew past the value of Meta and Tesla for the first time.</p><p>It came after the firm forecast quarterly profit and revenue well above expectations.</p><p>Micron is a major memory-chip maker and a key supplier to AI titan Nvidia.</p><p>The company's shares have more than tripled in value so far this year, and soared close to a fifth following its results.</p><p>:: 5%</p><p>Almost 5% is how far Apple shares fell after it announced price hikes.</p><p>The tech giant said its cheapest laptop will jump from $599 to $699, with iPad prices also rising - although the iPhone won't jump for now.</p><p>Apple says it can no longer avoid passing on rising costs to consumers.</p><p>The price of memory chips jumped by around 98% in the first quarter, and has kept soaring due to the AI boom.</p><p>:: 42% </p><p>42% was how much shares of Wendy's soared as retail traders bought up the beaten-down stock in the latest meme-like rally.</p><p>Trading on the heavily shorted stock was paused multiple times due to volatility..</p><p>Shares briefly hit a more than seven-month high.</p><p>The fast food chain is battling weak sales and pressure from an activist investor, with its stock down more than 78% from record highs five years ago.</p><p>:: $648 billion</p><p>Almost $648 billion is how much Samsung plans to invest in South Korea over 10 years.</p><p>That's according to the Maeil Business Newspaper, which said the firm will announce its intentions on Monday.</p><p>The investment includes a potential $194 billion to build chip factories in the country's southwest, as well as plans for AI data centers, batteries and displays.</p><p>There was no immediate response to a request for comment from Samsung.</p><p>:: $606.5 million</p><p>And $606.5 million was H&M's operating profit during its fiscal second quarter.</p><p>That was smaller than expected for the Swedish fashion retailer.</p><p>H&M blamed weaker consumer demand and inflation made worse by the Iran war.</p><p>CEO Daniel Erver said Europe, particularly the western part of it, had gone through a difficult quarter.</p></body>
US equity indexes were mixed on Thursday after Micron Technology's (MU) better-than-expected quarter
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has become one of the more interesting setups in mega-cap tech. After a 46.9% rally over the past year and an 8.01% year-to-date gain, the stock consolidated in June. With earnings accelerating and the iPhone 17 cycle feeding the top line, our model sees room for double-digit upside. Our 24/7 Wall St. price ... Apple’s Target Climbs as Earnings Accelerate: The Case For Double-Digit Upside
June 25 (Reuters) - Nasdaq futures jumped 2% on Thursday after upbeat forecasts from chipmakers Micron and Qualcomm pointed to strong demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure, lifting
By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE, June 25 (Reuters) - Asian equities surged on Thursday after strong earnings and forecasts from chip giants Micron and Qualcomm helped alleviate some concerns over the red-

Nasdaq jumps amid revived confidence in the AI trade, as Fed-favored inflation print keeps rate hikes in play.
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Qualcomm is expected to use its investor day on Wednesday to lay out a push beyond its core smartphone business into the fast-growing, but highly competitive, market for AI data center chips. Analysts expect the San Diego-based company to name new customers for its AI chips as it tries to gain a foothold in a market dominated by Nvidia. The shift reflects mounting pressure in the smartphone market, where Qualcomm is one of the world’s largest chip suppliers to Android device makers.
Investing.com -- Piper Sandler upgraded semiconductor design software maker Synopsys to Overweight from Neutral and raised its price target to $550 from $450, citing improving prospects for the company's intellectual property (IP) business as Intel's foundry ambitions gain traction.
Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) stock is up about 6% in Monday morning trading to around $1,199, leading a broad memory and storage rally into the company’s Wednesday earnings report. Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) stock is also up by about 6% to around $788, while SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) stock is up 5% to around $2,294. The group is resisting ... Micron and Western Digital Rise 6%, SanDisk Gains 5% as Memory Stocks Rally Into Micron’s Earnings
Intel's up over 10% as Trump touts a new deal to produce chips in the U.S. with Apple.
I keep hitting the buy button on Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), and the June panic over Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has only made my finger faster. Momentum traders are dumping high-flying tech indiscriminately, terrified Warsh will hold or hike to stamp out sticky inflation, and Apple has been dragged back under the $300 threshold at $299.24. I ... Why I Can’t Stop Buying This $3 Trillion Tech Titan Even as a “Rate Shock” Threatens to Tank Wall Street
Intel will build chips for Apple, President Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
Intel stock jumped after U.S. President Donald Trump said Apple has reached a chip manufacturing deal with Intel.
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Investing.com -- Shares of U.S. semiconductor companies climbed in premarket trading Thursday after President Trump said Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and manufacture its chips domestically.
(Bloomberg) -- Intel Corp.’s stock surged more than 9% in premarket trading Thursday after US President Donald Trump said the chipmaker will work alongside Apple Inc. to design and produce semiconductors domestically.Most Read from BloombergRead the 14-Point Draft Memorandum Between the US and IranModi Warns of ‘Shortage of Trust’ Ahead of Trump MeetingTrump Blows Through His Iran Red Lines in Justifying Peace DealIran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Confirms Deal Reached With USApple Plans Camera Air
Shares in Intel are up nearly 10% in premarket trading after President Trump said Apple agreed to work with the tech giant to design and build chips in the U.S. Apple and Intel previously reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to manufacture some chips for Apple devices after more than a year of intense talks, The Wall Street Journal reported in May.
Shares rose over 7% premarket after the president said that Apple agreed to work with Intel to design and build chips in the U.S.
Stocktwits data showed retail sentiment has improved to ‘bullish’ on SPY and QQQ from ‘bearish’ earlier in the week.
Tim Cook says Apple can no longer absorb soaring memory-chip costs driven by the artificial intelligence boom, signalling higher prices for consumers and raising concerns about broader inflation across the technology sector.View on euronews
The company that ends up defining a new gadget is rarely the one that ships it first. Being first means being early, and being early means paying to teach everyone else why they should care. Smart glasses have lived in that expensive waiting room for years. Meta (META) turned camera-equipped ...