Huawei crackdownHuawei's rebirth as cloud provider faces total U.S. export ban threat
Chinese tech company would be unable to access any American chips
A Huawei booth at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The event is usually a stage for Huawei's latest smartphone launch, but that did not happen this year. © AP
TAKASHI KAWAKAMI, RISA KAWABA and RINTARO TOBITA, Nikkei staff writers
GUANGZHOU/BARCELONA, Spain/WASHINGTON -- Huawei Technologies' pivot away from smartphones toward cloud technology and other business solutions faces a new threat: U.S. sanctions that now cover just high-performance semiconductors could be extended to all products.