By Alicia Diaz, Bloomberg

A top Republican senator asked the chairman of Intel Corp.’s board to answer questions about Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan’s ties to China, including investments in the country’s semiconductor companies and others with connections to the country’s military.

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In a letter to Frank Yeary, who oversees the chipmaker’s board of directors, Senator Tom Cotton asked about investments Tan made in China before he was picked to run Intel. Cotton noted specific concerns about Tan’s ties to Cadence Design Systems Inc., a tech company he led for over a decade which sold products to a Chinese military university. The company pleaded guilty in July to violating US export controls by selling hardware and software to China’s National University of Defense Te

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