The USA recently suspended its decision to place Huawei on its entity list for a year, after a series of postponements in enforcing the rules. When a company is on the list, US vendors have to apply for a special licence to trade with them. Many had applied for such licences last year, even though actual enforcement had not started except in limited circumstances, and many had voluntarily cut ties with Huawei (including Google). However, there were complaints that no licences were being issued, causing damaging uncertainty for many US component vendors, some of whom count Huawei as a leading customer. Xilinx, Broadcom and others warned of the potential impact of losing such a prominent customer, though even without the…