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U.S. Authorities Bust AI Chip “Trafficking Network” Trying to Smuggle $160 Million in NVIDIA AI Chips to China by Hiding the Shipments’ Final Destination

NVIDIA graphics card model A800 overlaid on U.S. and Chinese flags.

The U.S. authorities have caught an AI chip smuggling network that was reportedly intending to send NVIDIA’s H100 and H200 AI chips to China in an unlawful manner. Individuals Were Repackaging NVIDIA’s AI Chips in the U.S. to Misclassify Them and Secretly Ship Them to China Export controls have been a major concern for the US ever since AI has become a matter of national security, and since the Biden administration, we have seen US authorities attempt to close in ‘export loopholes’ by blocking NVIDIA’s highest-end AI chips being sold to nations like China, but despite such attempts, smuggling networks […]

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