Several US tech companies have adopted alternative solutions to continue supplying their components to Huawei, the large Chinese company and the second largest smartphone maker in the world, which Donald Trump's government has prevented from doing business in the United States. Intel, Micron, and other microchip makers have circumvented the bans by starting to sell their products made outside the United States and that do not contain technologies affecting US national security to Huawei; in fact, the ban only applies to components produced directly in the United States.
This solution allowed Intel and others to continue doing business with one of their major overseas customers: Huawei spent about $ 11 billion last year to purchase the components produced by US companies, which are essential for its smartphones and equipment with which it builds telecommunication networks. Huawei has benefited from a partial suspension of the bans until July regarding the use of Android, in the richest and most complete version made by Google, but it is not clear what will happen when the ban expires.
