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US Falls Behind on Memory Chips as Tariffs Add Pressure

Original: America Is Behind on Memory Chips—and Tariffs Threaten to Make Things Harder

The United States lags badly in memory chip production, an area dominated by Asian manufacturers, and new tariffs threaten to worsen the situation. With semiconductors central to AI, defense and consumer electronics, analysts warn that trade barriers could raise costs and slow efforts to build domestic capacity at exactly the moment Washington is trying to catch up.

Why now: Memory chips are critical to the AI boom and US industrial policy, so tariffs threatening the supply chain draw wide attention

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