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US lawmakers seek national security probe of Chinese chip giant CXMT after blockbuster IPO: ‘Ticking time bomb’
https://nypost.com ^ | July 28, 2026 | James Franey

Posted on 07/28/2026 10:09:32 AM PDT by bitt

Top US lawmakers want the Trump administration to launch a formal national security probe into Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT on suspicions that Beijing orchestrated the company’s blockbuster IPO to prop up a key military asset, The Post has learned.

Shares for the China-based chipmaker, also known as ChangXin Memory Technologies, skyrocketed 466% in Shanghai trading on Monday — raising $8.6 billion and instantly making the firm the most valuable on a China mainland exchange with a market capitalization of nearly $500 billion.

Beijing’s historic windfall — which sent shares of US chipmakers tumbling on competition fears on Monday — is setting off alarm bells in Washington, with a bipartisan group of at least a half-dozen members of Congress expected to send letters to the Trump administration in the coming days, sources close to the situation told The Post.

One senior US official told The Post there is “a real suspicion that a Chinese Communist Party intervention played a role in this so-called IPO” just six weeks after the Pentagon designated the firm as a Chinese military company.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinesechipgiant; cxmt
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1 posted on 07/28/2026 10:09:32 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 07/28/2026 10:09:49 AM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'WIDTH=500>)
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Looking at the prices of camera SD chips, I think the margins of memory chips must be excellent.

I only have two chips in reserve.


3 posted on 07/28/2026 10:24:22 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (The data centers might be hunting down guns. Black tape device cameras and PC microphones.)
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I assume GB memory chips use very fine geometries which I thought the PRC couldn’t produce itself.


4 posted on 07/28/2026 10:26:05 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (The data centers might be hunting down guns. Black tape device cameras and PC microphones.)
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A senior US official: "there is a real suspicion that CCP intervention played a role,”
just six weeks after the Pentagon labeled the firm a "Chinese military company."

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5 posted on 07/28/2026 10:36:42 AM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of His hands." (Psalm 19:1))
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To: GOPJ; poconopundit; Jane Long; Diana in Wisconsin; Grampa Dave; Godzilla; Vaduz; null and void; ...
A senior US official: "there is a real suspicion that CCP intervention played a role,”
just six weeks after the Pentagon labeled the firm a "Chinese military company."

=======================================================

ACTION NOW:
<>Call the US Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121,
<>look up your specific representative thru the US House Finder,
<>or go to House.gov
<>find senators on the US Senate Website, https://www.senate.gov/.

6 posted on 07/28/2026 10:37:54 AM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of His hands." (Psalm 19:1))
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To: bitt

Bkmk


7 posted on 07/28/2026 10:39:04 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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You put money into China the Chinese Communist Party makes sure it never gets out again ,LOL


8 posted on 07/28/2026 11:01:44 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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