From chip engineers to iPhone users, Koreans side with Micron after Tim Cook's memory remarks

• ·After the Apple CEO blamed chipmakers for higher device prices, Korean chip engineers and many consumers pushed back and sided with Micron in the escalating dispute.
• ·The global tech world is now divided into two hostile camps: Apple and Micron.
• ·And while Samsung Electronics and SK hynix remain officially mum on the clash, their employees clearly sympathize with their fellow chipmaker.
• ·Apple CEO Tim Cook threw the Big Tech brouhaha’s first punch in a Wall Street Journal interview two weeks ago, blaming skyrocketing consumer electronics prices on chipmakers and accusing them of “passing along huge price increases.” Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra counterattacked, telling CNBC on June 30 that “certain customers drove pricing significantly down in our industry.” Though he did not directly name Apple, he appeared to be alluding to  Apple's long-standing strategy of aggressively squeezing component prices, especially during cyclical downturns for memory chipmakers, by leveraging its scale and multi-vendor sourcing.
• ·Employees at Korea’s two chip giants haven’t been shy about expressing their scorn for Apple.

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