US tech firms to take hit from Huawei sanctions


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 21 May 2019

The icon for Google LLC's application is displayed on a Huawei Technologies Co. P20 Pro smartphone in an arranged photograph taken in Hong Kong, China, on Monday, May 20, 2019. Top U.S. corporations from chipmakers to Google have frozen the supply of critical software and components to Huawei, complying with a Trump administration crackdown that threatens to choke off China's largest technology company. Photographer: Justin Chin/Bloomberg

WASHINGTON: The tough sanctions imposed on Huawei by US President Donald Trump could deal a blow to the many US firms that make up the Chinese tech giant’s supply chain. 

American firms last year sold an estimated US$11bil (RM46.03bil) worth of components to Huawei, which was put on a blacklist last week by Washington over national security concerns as trade frictions grow between the US and China. 

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