A large-scale industry has evolved to get Nvidia’s most cutting-edge chips to Chinese buyers, via a network of smugglers using shell companies and phony data centers.

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Nvidia AI Chip Smuggling to China Becomes an Industry

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A large-scale industry has evolved to get Nvidia’s most cutting-edge chips to Chinese buyers, via a network of smugglers using shell companies and phony data centers.  https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-ai-chip-smuggling-to-china-becomes-an-industry?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-13391&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg&rc=gzsl71  #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖  #A Glance of China 行摄中国

Jerome Cody

the complex distribution network that Nvidia uses to sell its chips - a decadeslong practice common in the semiconductor industry-has inadvertently made smuggling possible and prevention of all smuggling nearly impossible.

Sam Mendoza

Mind-blowing, straight-out -of-a-crime-movie level of details

The USA's war on drugs was such a success, I can't fathom why they have such a challenge here. Surely it's easier to spot dudes walking to private meetings with GPUs lining their trench coats.

Jerome Cody

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