Trump demanded Thursday that Lip-Bu Tan, Intel's new CEO, resign over his past ties to Chinese companies, adding to the woes of a company that DeWine and other senior figures in Ohio's Republican Party had said would help create a manufacturing boom and turn the state into a "Silicon Heartland.

Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan said he’s got the full backing of the company’s board, responding for the first time to US President Donald Trump’s call for his resignation over conflicts of interest.

President Donald Trump urged the chief executive officer of Intel Corp. to resign over what he called conflicts of interest, injecting fresh turmoil at a company already struggling to stem losses and eke out relevance in the artificial intelligence age.