TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – President Joe Biden’s ban on US companies using materials or labor from Xinjiang, China, due to human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslim minority there, is starting to have an impact. US-based semiconductor chip provider Intel has apologized to consumers and partners in China for earlier statements about a boycott of products from the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. “We apologize for the problems that have occurred to our valued Chinese consumers, partners and people,” Intel said in Mandarin in a statement published in Chinese media, Friday, December 23, 2021. The apology came after a letter sent by Intel…