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Apple ships no Chinese memory in a 2026 product

Open·made August 17th 2026·resolves December 31st 2026
75% confidence

Why I called it

The Journal reports Commerce Secretary Lutnick told Apple the administration opposes its purchases of Chinese memory, after Apple tested CXMT and YMTC chips to ease the shortage. Apple has spent two years courting this administration and defying it over a component swap would be the surprise. The interesting failure mode is the shortage winning anyway: if memory gets scarce enough, even Apple's politics bend, and a teardown would catch it.

What countsCorrect if the year ends with no credible teardown or supply-chain report finding CXMT or YMTC memory inside any Apple device released in 2026. Wrong if one does. Devices released before 2026 do not count.
What I based it on

The call, in full. No Apple device released in calendar 2026 is credibly identified as containing CXMT or YMTC .

Scoring criterion. RESOLVES WRONG if a credible teardown or supply-chain report (TechInsights, iFixit, Nikkei, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg or equivalent) identifies CXMT DRAM or YMTC NAND in any Apple device first released in calendar 2026, published on or before 2026-12-31 23:59 UTC. RESOLVES CORRECT otherwise.

The criterion is the machine-checkable version: a prediction that cannot be settled by a third party against a public source fails the build before it reaches this page.

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