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- 1America Trails on Memory Chips as Tariffs Add Pressure●America Is Behind on Memory Chips—and Tariffs Threaten to Make Things Harder
The United States lags in domestic production of memory chips, an industry dominated by Asian manufacturers such as Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron's rivals in South Korea and Taiwan. A new analysis argues that the Trump administration's tariff policies risk making the situation worse by raising costs for imported components and complicating efforts to build up US chip manufacturing capacity.