The merchandise brought on “vital safety dangers to our important data infrastructure provide chain” which might have an effect on nationwide safety, in accordance with a press release from China’s Our on-line world Administration on Sunday.

Outcomes of the overview got here greater than a month after China introduced an investigation on imports from America’s largest memory-chip maker. That opened a brand new entrance within the escalating semiconductor battle between the the US and China.

The world’s largest economies more and more see one another’s tech sectors as dangers to nationwide safety. The US has already blacklisted Chinese language tech companies, sought to chop the movement of refined processors and banned its residents from offering sure assist to the nation’s chip trade. 

Micron mentioned after the overview was introduced that it was cooperating totally within the inquiry and “dedicated to conducting all enterprise with uncompromising integrity.” It additionally mentioned it stood by the safety of its merchandise and commitments to prospects.

Operators of key data infrastructure ought to cease buying Micron merchandise in accordance with related regulation and rules, the regulator mentioned Sunday. The checks into Micron merchandise are “vital measures” to safeguard nationwide safety, it mentioned.

China welcomes services offered by firms of all nations so long as these items adjust to Chinese language legal guidelines and rules, in accordance with the assertion.

Micron is the final remaining maker of laptop reminiscence based mostly within the US, having survived brutal trade downturns that compelled bigger firms similar to Intel Corp. and Texas Devices Inc. to bow out. The corporate has comparatively little publicity to China in contrast with its friends, and it doesn’t use the nation as a significant manufacturing base.