An nameless reader quotes a report from Reuters: Seagate has agreed to pay a $300 million penalty in a settlement with U.S. authorities for delivery over $1.1 billion value of exhausting disk drives to China’s Huawei in violation of U.S. export management legal guidelines, the Division of Commerce mentioned on Wednesday. Seagate bought the drives to Huawei between August 2020 and September 2021 regardless of an August 2020 rule that restricted gross sales of sure overseas objects made with U.S. expertise to the corporate. Huawei was positioned on the Entity Record, a U.S. commerce blacklist, in 2019 to scale back the sale of U.S. items to the corporate amid nationwide safety and overseas coverage issues.
Seagate shipped 7.4 million drives to Huawei for a few yr after the 2020 rule took impact and have become Huawei’s sole provider of exhausting drives, the Commerce Division mentioned. The opposite two major suppliers of exhausting drives ceased shipments to Huawei after the brand new rule took impact in 2020, the division mentioned. Although they weren’t recognized, Western Digital and Toshiba had been the opposite two, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee mentioned in a 2021 report on Seagate.
