Report: Black market keeps Nvidia chips flowing to China military, government
by Ashley Belanger from Ars Technica - All content on (#6HW79)
Enlarge / An Nvidia H100 graphics processor chip.
China is still finding ways to skirt US export controls on Nvidia chips, Reuters reported.
A Reuters review of publicly available tender documents showed that last year dozens of entities-including "Chinese military bodies, state-run artificial intelligence research institutes, and universities"-managed to buy "small batches" of restricted Nvidia chips.
The US has been attempting to block China from accessing advanced chips needed to achieve AI breakthroughs and advance modern military technologies since September 2022, citing national security risks.