By Che Pan and Mrinmay Dey<\/p>\n
Aug 28 (Reuters) \u2013 China\u2019s top memory chipmaker, ChangXin Memory Technologies, sued the Pentagon on Friday over being placed on a list of companies the U.S. says are aiding Beijing\u2019s military.<\/p>\n
\u201cCXMT is not affiliated with \u200bthe Chinese military,\u201d the company said in the federal lawsuit. \u201cCXMT designs, produces, \u200cand sells its DRAM chips for civilian and commercial use, not for military use.\u201d<\/p>\n
The U.S. Defense Department told Reuters in a statement: \u201cAs a matter of policy, the Department does not comment on pending or ongoing litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Pentagon designated CXMT a Chinese military company under the Biden administration, and the Trump administration \u200ckept \u200bthe company on the list in a June update.<\/p>\n
CXMT\u2019s lawsuit \u2060seeks to overturn the designation \u2060and remove itself from a Pentagon list that can trigger government contracting restrictions and reputational damage.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince its initial designation in January 2025, CXMT has continuously suffered reputational and commercial harm,\u201d the company said in a statement to Reuters, adding that it \u200bis pursuing the action to protect its business interests.<\/p>\n
CXMT is China\u2019s top maker of dynamic random-access memory chips, which are widely used in smartphones, personal computers, servers, artificial \u2060intelligence systems and other electronics. The company, whose \u2060revenue spiked 874% in the first half, hopes to enter the \u200bU.S. market in the long term, Reuters has reported.<\/p>\n
Its lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District \u200bCourt for the District of Columbia, names the Department of Defense, Defense Secretary \u200cPete Hegseth, Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy Michael Cadenazzi as defendants.<\/p>\n
CXMT argues that the Pentagon\u2019s decision was \u201carbitrary,\u201d lacked evidentiary support and violated its due-process rights.<\/p>\n
According to the complaint, the company spent more than a year \u2060providing the Pentagon with information to challenge the designation, seeking removal from the list.<\/p>\n
CXMT said the Pentagon published a notice in February stating that the company would be removed from \u2060the list but withdrew the \u200cnotice the same day. The company alleged that the Defense Department \u2060subsequently did not adequately explain the change when it relisted \u200bit.<\/p>\n
\u201cNone of \u200cthese determinations is supported by the factual record, by applicable \u200blaw, or \u2060by reasoned decision-making,\u201d CXMT said.<\/p>\n
CXMT\u2019s lawsuit mirrors that of other Chinese companies.\u00a0In June, Alibaba, the Chinese technology and e-commerce giant, sued the U.S. government over being placed on the list.<\/p>\n
Smartphone and electric-vehicle maker Xiaomi got itself removed in 2021 by filing a suit in a U.S. court.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Che Pan, Christian Martinez, Mrinmay Dey; Editing by Caitlin Webber, William Mallard, Stephen \u200bCoates, and Eduardo Baptista)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Che Pan and Mrinmay Dey Aug 28 (Reuters) \u2013 China\u2019s top memory chipmaker, ChangXin Memory Technologies, sued…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-829423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}