India, Jan. 18 -- One last swipe, from a president departing for Mar-a-Lago.

The Trump administration, which ends at midday on Wednesday, has used some of its last hours to tell Intel and other Huawei suppliers it is revoking their licenses to sell to the Chinese tech maker.

On Friday, the US Commerce Department issued "intents to deny a significant number of license requests for exports to Huawei and a revocation of at least one previously issued license," according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.

When Huawei was placed on the Commerce Department's "entity list" in May 2019, companies using US technology needed to request licenses to sell semiconductors to it after last September.

Intel had secured one in September, and an...