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Lenovo confirmed that some notebooks sold outside China now use solid-state drives from Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC), marking the first known appearance of the Chinese memory maker's SSDs in an overseas Lenovo model. The move comes as global PC makers face tighter NAND flash supply and higher prices.

China's memory industry is undergoing another round of ownership restructuring. According to a recent merger review case disclosed by China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), YMTC Holdings, the parent company of Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC), will sell its 39% stake in Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing (XMC) to Wuhan Optics Valley Semiconductor Industry Investment.

Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) is bringing its consumer SSD brand ZHITAI back to South Korea after a four-year absence, as major memory makers devote more resources to high-bandwidth memory and enterprise storage.