South Korean tech company LG also withdrew earlier in the week. Other companies are adjusting or scaling back their plans to adapt to travel and quarantine measures. The Chinese tech giant Huawei, a major sponsor, is assigning European staff to the show. Jean-Baptiste Su, principal analyst at Atherton Research in San Jose, California, said he's decided not to attend because of virus worries. Su said many participants were coming from China, and “we don't know much about how the transmission of the virus works."

Source: International New York Times February 07, 2020 20:52 UTC