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The US Department of Commerce has added eight more Chinese tech firms to its Entity List that bars these firms from conduction of any trade with the US without an approval from the government.

The U.S. government added 77 more companies to the Entity List, banning the firms from trading with U.S. companies without a license, The firms include chipmaker SMIC and popular drone maker DJI.

Things are looking to get even more difficult for Huawei as the U.S. government is planning on putting more restrictions on companies that are still supplying components to the Chinese company.

Microsoft has been granted a license by the United States Department of Commerce to sell "mass-market" software to Huawei, a company that's currently banned from doing business with U.S. companies.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has issued Huawei with a three-month extension which will allow the company to do business with U.S. companies. The license still only allows limited business.

ARM's legal company gave the verdict that the company can continue supplying chip technology to Huawei since the origin of it will not breach U.S. trade restrictions and sanctions.

The founder of Huawei Technologies advises in an internal memo that a substantial restructuring and reorganization of the company is needed to size up against its inclusion in the Entity List.

In the latest stage of the Huawei-U.S. saga, it is being reported that the Chinese firm will be laying off hundreds of U.S. workers, employed at its R&D subsidiary Futurewei Technologies.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has confirmed that U.S.-based firms will be able to apply for licenses to sell tech to Huawei. However, the Chinese firm will remain on the entity list.