The latest exclusive report by the Wall Street Journal on the US pressuring Apple to move away from its reported consideration of Chinese-made memory chips has reignited the discussion on the impact of geopolitics in hardware technology and manufacturing. Apple was, as per ground reports from the US, musing the possibility of using memory produced by Chinese DRAM maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and NAND flash maker Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC). US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is said to have told the iPhone maker that using Chinese memory is not advisable, as per the WSJ. Apple's purported move was in…