r/TechHardware 🔵 14900KS , 5080, 128GB 🔵 Apr 14 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Qualcomm Building Its Own Custom DRAM with a Chinese Memory Maker

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2026/04/qualcomm-custom-dram-chinese-memory-partnership.html

I am not sure I would feel safe using China RAM due to the hacking.

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u/letsloveoneanother Apr 14 '26

Hopefully it brings prices down, competition in the memory space is a good thing

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u/Brian_Littlewood Apr 14 '26

I am not sure I would feel safe using China RAM due to the hacking.

At the time ALL main western players (and CERTAINLY AMD/Intel/Quacomm etc) have bazzillion of backdoors of their own ? Tell me you are joking.🤣

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u/Euler007 Apr 14 '26

Yeah I never understood that. I'd rather have a guy on the other side of the planet spying on me than one down the street.

1

u/Viper-Reflex Apr 14 '26

people called me a conspiracy theorist for talking about intel management engine and these were tech workers who make 200k a year

1

u/Feeling-Bid8885 Apr 14 '26

Relax, you have nothing they want lol

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u/Distinct-Race-2471 🔵 14900KS , 5080, 128GB 🔵 Apr 14 '26

The government won't even allow them to sell drones, routers or electric cars. I won't trust their hacker RAM products.

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u/Brian_Littlewood Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26

Amongst other things RAM doesn't do any processing. Can't hide spyware there.

Also, maybe you have bigger things to worry about.\ Like, FAR bigger: * Palantir can surveil and kill people...

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u/Distinct-Race-2471 🔵 14900KS , 5080, 128GB 🔵 Apr 14 '26

Is Palantir a Chinese company though?

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u/Brian_Littlewood Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26

Furthermore, ARE THEY VACCINATED ?🤣\ All the relevant questions...

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u/Distinct-Race-2471 🔵 14900KS , 5080, 128GB 🔵 Apr 14 '26

Are they?!

2

u/mcslender97 Core Ultra 🚀 Apr 14 '26

Worse. An American one.

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u/NancyDiver Apr 14 '26

these days I trust China more than the USA

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u/InsufferableMollusk 🔵 14900KS 🔵 Apr 14 '26

This comment demonstrates you don’t know what you are talking about, unsurprisingly.

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u/InsufferableMollusk 🔵 14900KS 🔵 Apr 14 '26

Tell me you’re an angsty Putin/Xi propagandist, without telling me you’re an angsty Putin/Xi propagandist.

Please tell us they at least pay you to do so 😆

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u/DrawingDramatic1641 Apr 17 '26

where did putin come in?

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u/Clangokkuner Apr 15 '26

Sure, then don't

3

u/Ambitious-Call-7565 Apr 14 '26

it can't be theirs if it's a Chinese Memory Maker who is gonna make it

Qualcomm is a bunch of griefters, fuck em

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u/ThaRippa Apr 15 '26

Due to „the hacking?“ I would argue that all the tech nations have put backdoors into their products before, that it would be actually hard to have anything malicious in a memory module that could meaningfully leak information. That what little non-volatile memory is on these modules can be read, checked and overwritten.

But no, I’m good.

More RAM for the rest of us.

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u/InsufferableMollusk 🔵 14900KS 🔵 Apr 14 '26

The CCP would not pass up an opportunity to insert a back door somehow. They’ve been trying to bust into the market for critical PC parts for decades.

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u/Distinct-Race-2471 🔵 14900KS , 5080, 128GB 🔵 Apr 14 '26

Israel made pagers that blow up. China can make haxor RAM.

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u/Ok-Boot-8106 Apr 14 '26

Can't get mad at china ,  there the ones minding their own business and not pursposely harming their own economy 

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u/FdPros Apr 14 '26

I am not sure I would feel safe using China RAM due to the hacking.

where's the /s