Elite US School MIT Cuts Ties With Chinese Tech Firms Huawei, ZTE

The Maclaurin Building is shown on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Feb. 22, 2006. The Institute admitted its first students in 1865 and continues with the mission to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has severed ties with Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp as U.S. authorities investigate the Chinese firms for alleged sanctions violations, it said on April 3.

MIT is the latest top U.S. education institution to unplug telecom equipment made by Huawei and other Chinese companies to avoid losing federal funding.