China still received over $1 billion worth of Nvidia AI chips despite export controls
The post China still received over $1 billion worth of Nvidia AI chips despite export controls appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Over $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s top AI processors reached China in just 3 months after President Donald Trump tightened US chip export rules, according to The Financial Times. The analysis finds that Nvidia’s B200 chip, which is banned for direct sale to China, has become a hot commodity on China’s black market. The findings highlight how hard it is for Washington to curb Beijing’s drive for advanced semiconductors. This processor, used by major US firms such as OpenAI, Meta and Google to train AI systems, turned up in bulk sales from May onward. At that time, Chinese distributors began offering B200 units to data center suppliers serving local AI developers, just weeks after Trump blocked shipments of the less powerful H20 chip under Joe Biden’s export curbs. Under Chinese law, companies can import and resell restricted chips once they pay the proper tariffs. But anyone exporting these parts from the US to China without approval is breaking American export controls. Late last week, Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, said the US would soon resume legal sales of the China‑specific H20 chip. In the months before that announcement, distributors in Guangdong, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces sold not only B200s but also other banned models like the H200 and H100. Taken together, contract values and insider estimates put the total at over $1 billion for that period. Nvidia says there’s no evidence of AI chip diversion Nvidia maintains it has “no evidence of any AI chip diversion” and says it neither knows of nor takes part in any unauthorized sales into China. The company said that establishing data centers using smuggled chips is a losing case, economically and technically. Nvidia also noted that its service and support are available only to authorized products. Anhui-based “Gate of the Era” has emerged as one of…
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Over $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s top AI processors reached China in just 3 months after President Donald Trump tightened US chip export rules, according to The Financial Times. The analysis finds that Nvidia’s B200 chip, which is banned for direct sale to China, has become a hot commodity on China’s black market. The findings highlight how hard it is for Washington to curb Beijing’s drive for advanced semiconductors. This processor, used by major US firms such as OpenAI, Meta and Google to train AI systems, turned up in bulk sales from May onward. At that time, Chinese distributors began offering B200 units to data center suppliers serving local AI developers, just weeks after Trump blocked shipments of the less powerful H20 chip under Joe Biden’s export curbs. Under Chinese law, companies can import and resell restricted chips once they pay the proper tariffs. But anyone exporting these parts from the US to China without approval is breaking American export controls. Late last week, Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, said the US would soon resume legal sales of the China‑specific H20 chip. In the months before that announcement, distributors in Guangdong, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces sold not only B200s but also other banned models like the H200 and H100. Taken together, contract values and insider estimates put the total at over $1 billion for that period. Nvidia says there’s no evidence of AI chip diversion Nvidia maintains it has “no evidence of any AI chip diversion” and says it neither knows of nor takes part in any unauthorized sales into China. The company said that establishing data centers using smuggled chips is a losing case, economically and technically. Nvidia also noted that its service and support are available only to authorized products. Anhui-based “Gate of the Era” has emerged as one of…
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