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Smuggling case against NVIDIA chips widens with new arrest, Bloomberg reports

US prosecutors arrested Greg Lui for allegedly smuggling servers containing $300 million worth of NVIDIA AI chips to China, violating export controls, according to Bloomberg. The report also details an earlier case involving a red hair dryer used to strip serial numbers off NVIDIA server boxes, and describes new data centers in western China believed capable of housing 115,000 restricted NVIDIA processors.

engadget.com · 2026-10-02

C4ADS report maps how banned Nvidia AI chips still flow into China

A report from nonprofit watchdog C4ADS outlines three main routes Chinese buyers use to obtain export-restricted Nvidia AI chips like the H100, A100 and Blackwell models: direct purchases through research institutions, rerouting shipments through third countries in Southeast Asia, and layered shell-company transactions. The group notes its findings only cover documented cases, so the real volume of smuggled hardware is likely much larger.

tomshardware.com · 2026-09-17