CXMT is the world’s fourth largest manufacturer of DRAM , with its share of global revenue in the DRAM market increasing from 4 per cent to 10 per cent in Q2 of 2026.
US Senator, Tom Cotton from Arkansas has urged the Trump administration to restrict the access of Chang Xin Memory Technologies’ (CXMT) to the US market. In a letter to commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, Cotton requested to add CXMT to the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Entity List of the department.
The company’s already been added to the US Department of Defence’s 1260H list, which identifies companies with links to China’s military. However, listing on the commerce department will add on further restrictions on the company as far as access to US technology is concerned. Moreover, it would limit American Businesses’ ability to conduct transactions with it.
CXMT is the world’s fourth largest manufacturer of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) , with its share of global DRAM revenue increasing from 4 per cent to 10 per cent in the second quarter of 2026 according to Counterpoint research. The company is also foraying into the high bandwidth memory (HBM) market which is used in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.
“CXMT, one of Communist China’s national memory chip champions, poses a growing risk to our economic prosperity and military superiority”, Senator Cotton wrote in his letter. He called on to implement further restrictions on CXMT’s access to financial and technology resources , adding that the company’s integration into the supply chain can undermine American growth.
