CHOKEPOINT
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ENTITY · ymtc
Deal-Killer · Procurement Veto
Yangtze Memory (YMTC) is itself sanctioned (BIS-EntityList).

Yangtze Memory (YMTC)

China·nand·challenger

China's NAND flash champion with Xtacking architecture.

CRITICAL · 70–100
78/100 illustrative
Underwriting Thesis

CRITICAL — Yangtze Memory (YMTC) is itself sanctioned (BIS-EntityList). A sanctioned node in the immediate supply path is a binary procurement risk that overrides all favorable factors.

Factor Breakdown
Foreign-Origin Concentration100
Sole-Source Dependence48
Sanctions Exposure100
Downstream Criticality57
Sanctions Exposure
BIS-EntityList
DoD Exposure

No matched DoD semiconductor awards (USASpending) for this entity.

Shortest paths → DoD-exposed firms
  • Scale AI · 3 hops · $105.6M
    Yangtze Memory (YMTC) → Dell Technologies → CoreWeave → Scale AI
Chokepoint Relationships

Key Suppliers · upstream · 0

No mapped upstream suppliers.

Key Customers · downstream · 4

Data Provenance· generated 2026-10-05 23:09:07Z
  • › Consolidated Screening List (CSL) [LIVE] https://data.trade.gov/downloadable_consolidated_screening_list/v1/consolidated.json @ 2026-10-05T23:09:05.690Z
  • › USASpending.gov — DoD award search [LIVE] https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/ @ 2026-10-05T23:09:07.403Z
  • › Curated ownership aggregation [FALLBACK] @ 2026-10-05T23:09:07.405Z
  • › Curated China-ecosystem + Nexperia edges (Phase B, CSET ETO + TechInsights + TrendForce + SCMP + BIS Entity List + Nexperia press release) [FALLBACK] @ 2026-10-05T23:09:07.405Z

Firm/commodity-level signals from public data — not component-level BOM. Scores are an analytic underwriting heuristic, not legal or procurement advice.