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Chinese companies allegedly smuggled in $1bn worth of Nvidia AI chips in the last three months, despite increasing export controls — some companies are already flaunting future B300 availability
Picking up a B200 in China is easier than you might think
While the U.S. has made it illegal for anyone to sell these banned chips to specific countries, China has no such restrictions, allowing anyone to trade them as long as the proper taxes have been paid. You’ll even find these chips openly advertised on Chinese social media apps, like Douyin and Xiaohongshu, with distributors and retailers offering everything from RTX 5090 GPUs to complete B200 servers. More than that, Huang says that export controls are a failure, with these bans and sanctions encouraging China to build its own hardware infrastructure that might eventually challenge American dominance.
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