US friendly fire over Huawei ramps up

The US state has proudly announced its biggest ever fine for a domestic company that did business with Huawei.
That company is US hard drive giant Seagate, which now owes the US state $300 million for having the temerity to flog some stuff to sanctioned Chinese telecoms vendor Huawei. The US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) expanded its persecution of Huawei in August 2020 in a bid to stop it getting hold of chips. But not everyone got the memo that this new s