Huawei is no longer allowed to buy computer chips from companies such as Intel and Qualcomm, according to Reuters. An American export license is said to have been revoked.
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The US has revoked the licenses that allowed companies such as Intel and Qualcomm to sell computer chips to China’s Huawei.
Three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The sources are not named. A fourth source says that some of the companies were informed on Tuesday that the export license had been revoked with immediate effect.
The chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the House of Representatives, Michael McCaul, confirms to Bloomberg that the licenses have been revoked.
The US Department of Commerce confirmed earlier in the day that some licenses for strikes to Huawei had been revoked, but did not state which companies were involved.
Intel says it will not comment on the matter, according to the Reuters news agency. Neither Qualcomm nor Huawei have responded to inquiries from the agency.
Last month, Huawei launched a new laptop, the MateBook X Pro, based on Intel’s new Core Ultra 9 processor.
The reason for the confiscation is not known, but several congressional representatives in Washington have advocated stricter measures to target the Chinese company.
