US crackdown on Huawei intensifies as Intel, Qualcomm lose licenses to ship chips to the Chinese hardware giant

The U.S. Department of Commerce has blocked Chinese tech giant Huawei from receiving supplies of certain semiconductors from Intel and Qualcomm in the name of national security and foreign policy. This is significant because it’s a new level of pressure being applied to Huawei by the U.S. government, which has long held that the company…