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Tech's cold war: Here's how geopolitics is shaping your next smartphone

Companies including Google, Qualcomm and Broadcom froze some of the supply of products to Huawei

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A surveillance camera is seen next to a sign of Huawei outside a shopping mall in Beijing, China. Photo: Reuters

Jamie Condliffe | NYT
US President Trump’s latest swipe at Huawei could be the start of a deep transformation of the tech sector.

Citing national security concerns, the Commerce Department said this month that American companies would need special permission to sell some products to Huawei and other Chinese companies. This past week, things escalated.

Companies including Google, Qualcomm and Broadcom froze some of the supply of products to the Chinese technology giant. (Google, for instance, will no longer offer Huawei the full version of its Android operating system.) The crackdown may expand, with a ban on sales to Chinese surveillance companies possible.

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