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As the global memory shortage continues, Corsair memory may be trialing a new source for its NAND Flash chips, VideoCardz reports.
An X user posted screenshots of some Corsair Vengeance memory they were running and found that the underlying NAND Flash chips on the sticks were made by China-based ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT). This could be a sign of memory companies diversifying as best they can to avoid steeper price rises.
The past year has seen consistent and repeated memory price hikes. As data centers gobbled up all the available RAM and encouraged memory producers like Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix to produce server-friendly HBM instead of DDR, shortages and rising costs abound. While we wait for new fabrication capacity at the big players to come online in 2027 or 2028, though, other alternatives are emerging. One of those is the Chinese memory manufacturer CXMT.
Although a comparative newcomer to the memory market, having only launched as a company in 2016, CXMT is already a major global producer, with a major expansion in 2025 driving it toward a near-10% stake in the global DRAM market. Now it may be making inroads in mainstream DDR memory, with Corsair potentially testing the waters with a new supplier.
According to the CPU-Z screenshots, the memory is a 2x8GB, 16GB Corsair Vengeance kit with a DDR5-6000 speed rating. Its standard JEDEC speed locks it to 2,400MHz with timings of 40-40-40-77, but onboard EXPO and XMP profiles bring it to 3,000MHz and adjust the timings to C36-40-40-96. That suggests it will run at full speed in both AMD and Intel systems.
Intriguingly, the product name is listed as CMK5X16G3E60C36A2-CN. Both points point to Corsair Vengeance memory, and the Chinese market, which could suggest this is a China-exclusive product, or a sample where Corsair is testing the waters in a market close to that of its potential new supplier.
Although CXMT is considered an entity of interest by US authorities and has been subject to sanctions in the past to curb the sale of cutting-edge chip manufacturing equipment to the company, many restrictions on its activities were lifted earlier this year. That could open up sales of CXMT-based memory outside China, potentially in the United States.