Republican Senator Asks Disk Drive Companies About Supplying Huawei

A senior Republican U.S. senator asked the chief executives of Toshiba America Electronic Components, Seagate Technology, and Western Digital Corp. if the companies are improperly supplying Huawei with foreign-produced hard disk drives. Senator Roger Wicker, the ranking member of the Commerce Committee, said a 2020 U.S. Commerce Department regulation sought to "tighten Huawei's ability to procure items that are the direct product of specified U.S. technology or software, such as hard disk drives."